IN-DTC-32 (Miocene of Peru)

Where: Ucayali, Peru (10.4° S, 73.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° S, 70.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Laventan mammal zone, Ipururo Formation, Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified conglomerate

• Vertebrate remains accumulate mainly in Miocene conglomerates from the Ipururo Formation, interpreted as storm deposits channelized in nearshore environment (Espurt et al. 2007, 2010).

Size class: macrofossils

• Fragmentary ectometaloph of a left M3 (MUSM 1477)

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: MUSM: Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

Primary reference: G. Goillot, P. O. Antoine, J. Tejada, F. Pujos, and R. Salas-Gismondi. 2011. Middle Miocene Uruguaytheriinae (Mammalia, Astrapotheria) from Peruvian Amazonia and a review of the astrapotheriid fossil record in northern South America. Geodiversitas 33(2):331-345 [C. Jaramillo/J. Ceballos/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144793: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juliana Ceballos on 18.05.2013, edited by Juan Carrillo

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Fragmentary ectometaloph of a left M3 (MUSM 1477)
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unclassified
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Protherotheriidae indet.
Mammalia
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodontidae indet., Boreostemma sp., Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis
Glyptodontidae indet. glyptodon
MUSM 934
Boreostemma sp. Carlini et al. 2008 glyptodon
MUSM 932, MUSM 933
Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis Croft et al. 2007 glyptodon
MUSM 980 and MUSM 982
  - Mylodontidae
Urumacotherium sp.
Urumacotherium sp. Bocquentin-Villanueva 1983 edentate
MUSM 985
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonychidae indet.
Megalonychidae indet. Gervais 1855 edentate
MUSM 904
 Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Granastrapotherium cf. snorki
Granastrapotherium cf. snorki Johnson and Madden 1997 placental
Specimen MUSM 1477
 Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Miocochilius anomopodus
Miocochilius anomopodus Stirton 1953 notoungulate
MUSM 986, MUSM 1494
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Pericotoxodon cf. platignathus
Pericotoxodon cf. platignathus Madden 1997 notoungulate
MUSM 1500, MUSM 922,
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
"Macrauchenidae indet." = Macraucheniidae
"Macrauchenidae indet." = Macraucheniidae Ameghino 1889 placental
MUSM 1505
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Drytomomys cf. aequatorialis
Drytomomys cf. aequatorialis Anthony 1922 caviomorph
MUSM 943, MUSM 946, MUSM 942
 Sparassodonta -
Borhyaenoidea indet.
Borhyaenoidea indet. Ameghino 1894 metatherian
MUSM 1649