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Chronological Distribution of Brazilian Glyptodon SP. Remains: A Direct 14C Date for a Specimen from Iporanga, São Paulo, Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Alex Hubbe ,
André G Vasconcelos ,
Luciano Vilaboim ,
Ivo Karmann  and
Walter Neves
Alex Hubbe*
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Estudos Evolutivos Humanos, Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 277, 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Instituto do Carste, Rua Barcelona, 240/apto 302, Belo Horizonte, MG. 30360–260, Brazil.
André G Vasconcelos
Affiliation:
Spelayon Consultoria – ME, Avenida Amazonas, n° 1306/sala 202, 30180-000 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Luciano Vilaboim
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Paleontologia do Museu de Ciências Naturais da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Avenida Dom José Gaspar, 290, 30535-610, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Ivo Karmann
Affiliation:
Departamento de Geologia Sedimentar, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Lago, 562, 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Walter Neves
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Estudos Evolutivos Humanos, Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 277, 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
*
Corresponding author. Email: alexhubbe@yahoo.com.
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Glyptodon sp. fossil remains can be found throughout Brazil. However, little information is available about their chronological distribution. With the intention to contribute to this issue, we present, as far as we know, the first direct radiocarbon date for 1 specimen of this genus found in Brazil. The osteoderm MZSP-PV660 found in Abismo do Fóssil Cave (SP-145), Iporanga, São Paulo, Brazil, was dated by accelerator mass spectrometry at the Beta Analytic Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory. The 14C date obtained was between 20,680 and 21,370 calibrated years before the present. Unfortunately, the scant (and often imprecise or unreliable) chronological data regarding this species and genus in Brazil and elsewhere in South America precludes a robust comparison among the dates available and the one presented here. Nevertheless, our finding supports the existence of this genus in South America at least until the Last Glacial Maximum.

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Archaeology
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Radiocarbon , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , 2011 , pp. 13 - 19
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Copyright © 2011 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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