Where: Peru (4.7° S, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° S, 80.5° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: tar; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, sieve
Primary reference: R. R. H. Lemon and C. S. Churcher. 1961. Pleistocene Geology and Paleontology of the Talara Region, Northwest Peru. American Journal of Science 259:410-429 [J. Alroy/K. Sears/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71346: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Karen Sears on 12.03.1999, edited by Richard Hulbert, Matthew Clapham, Evangelos Vlachos, Jonathan Marcot and John Alroy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Marmosa sp. Gray 1821 mouse opossum | |
"Haplomastodon sp." = Notiomastodon
"Haplomastodon sp." = Notiomastodon Cabrera 1929 gomphothere | |
Eptesicus sp. Rafinesque 1820 house bat | |
Chlamytherium sp. Lund 1838 edentate | |
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948 edentate | |
Scelidotherium sp. Owen 1839 edentate
Glossotherium sp. Owen 1840 edentate | |
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Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir | |
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
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Neochoerus sp. Hay 1926 caviomorph | |
Phyllotis sp. Waterhouse 1837 mouse
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat | |
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Chelonoidis sp.4 Fitzinger 1835 turtle Carapacial bones: three costals (ROM-42025, 42028 and 42029) and three peripheral bones (ROM-42026, 42030, and 2024).Limb bones: thirty-four osteoderms (ROM-40572- 40599, 40620, 40600-40604 and 42190); one podial bone (ROM-40620). Unidentified bones: six unidentified shell bones (ROM- 42021-42024, 42027 and 42031).
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"Lobipes lobatus" = Phalaropus lobatus1, "Steganopus tricolor" = Phalaropus tricolor1, "Actitis macularia" = Actitis macularius1, Nuntius solitarius n. gen. n. sp.1, Numenius cf. borealis1, Tringa solitaria1, "Totanus melanoleucas" = Tringa melanoleuca1, "Catoptrophorus semipalmatus" = Tringa semipalmata1, "Totanus flavipes" = Tringa flavipes1, Tringa ameghini n. sp.1, Arenaria interpres1, "Erolia melanotos" = Calidris melanotos1, Micropalama chapmani n. sp.1, "Erolia minutilla" = Calidris minutilla1, "Micropalama himantopus" = Calidris himantopus1
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Pluvialis squatarola1, Pluvialis dominica1, Charadrius semipalmatus1, Charadrius collaris1, Charadrius vociferus1, Viator picis n. gen. n. sp.1, Belonopterus edmondi n. sp.1
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Milvago brodkorbi n. sp.1, Falco sp.1, Falco sparverius1, Falco femoralis1, Falco peregrinus1, Polyborus plancus1
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Eudocimus albus1, Eudocimus peruvianus n. sp.1, Theristicus wetmorei n. sp.1, "Ajaia ajaja" = Platalea ajaja1
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"Casmerodius albus" = Ardea alba1, Ardea cocoi1, Nycticorax nycticorax1, Egretta thula1, Egretta caerulea1, Syrigma sanctimartini n. sp.1
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Nomonyx dominicus1, "Chloephaga melanoptera" = Oressochen melanopterus1, Dendrocygna autumnalis1, Cairina moschata1, Anas sanctaehelenae n. sp.1, Anas talarae n. sp.1, Anas amotape n. sp.1, Anas bahamensis1, Nannonetta invisitata n. gen. n. sp.1
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Gymnogyps howardae n. sp.1, Vultur gryphus1, Geronogyps reliquus n. gen. n. sp.1, Cathartes aura1, Coragyps cf. atratus1, Sarcoramphus fischeri n. sp.1
Sarcoramphus fischeri n. sp.1 Campbell 1979 king vulture generic affiliation uncertain as denoted by question mark in original description
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"Buteo polyosoma" = Geranoaetus polyosoma1, Geranoaetus melanoleucus1, Parabuteo unicinctus1, Buteo sp.1, Miraquila terrestris n. gen. n. sp.1, Amplibuteo hibbardi n. gen. n. sp.1
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