Punin (Pleistocene of Ecuador)

Also known as ETE Locality 1613, Punin,

Where: Ecuador (1.8° S, 78.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 1.7° S, 78.4° W (Wright 2013)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: .

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: airfall, ETE env comment: volcanic eruption
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, 483, 81, 482, 485, 454, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: J. Weigelt. 1989. Recent vertebrate carcasses and their paleobiological implications. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1-188 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22734: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 29.05.2001, edited by John Damuth

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius andium
Cuvieronius andium gomphothere
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypus sp.
Dasypus sp. Linnaeus 1758 armadillo
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet.
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
ETE occurrence; species: Equidae