“…The Talara Tar Seeps (TTS) is an asphaltic paleontological locality that consists of a series of fossil-bearing deposits, late Pleistocene in age between 13616 ± 600 and 14418 ± 500 radiocarbon years before present (Churcher 1966), where numerous fossil skeletons of megafauna and other animals have been found (Seymour 2015, Lindsey & Seymour 2015. The fossil fauna of the TTS includes: crocodylians (Alligatoridae), lepidosaurians (Boidae, Colubridae, Phyllodactylidae, Iguanidae, Gymnophthalmidae, and Teiidae), turtles (Emydidae, Geoemydidae, and Testudinidae), at least 23 families of non-passerine and 8 families of passerine birds (Campbell 1979, Oswald & Steadman 2015 and mammals represented by marsupials (Didelphidae), chiropterans (Phyllostomidae and Vespertilionidae), rodents (Hydrochoeridae and Cricetidae), carnivorans (Canidae, Felidae, Mephitidae, and Mustelidae), xenarthrans (Megatheriidae, Mylodontidae, and Pampatheriidae), artiodactyls (Cervidae, Tayassuidae, and Camelidae), perissodactyls (Equidae) and proboscideans (Gomphotheriidae) (Churcher 1959, 1962, 1965, 1966, Churcher & Van Zyll de Jong 1965, Czaplewski 1990, Lemon & Churcher 1961, Marshall et al 1984, Moretto et al 2017, Seymour 2015).…”