title: Tablazo Formation, Ecuador
text: # Tablazo Formation, Ecuador
  
  The Tablazo Formation is a Middle Pleistocene geologic formation of Santa Elena Province in western Ecuador. The claystones and sandstones were deposited in an estuarine environment.
  
  ## Fossil content
  
  The formation has provided the following fossils:
  
  * Geochelone sp.
  * Eremotherium cf. laurillardi
  * Notiomastodon platensis (described as Haplomastodon waringii)
  * Smilodon fatalis
  
  An association of two subadult and one adult specimen of Smilodon fatalis was reported from the formation by Reynolds, Seymour & Evans (2021), who interpret the subadult specimens as likely to be siblings, and evaluate the implications of this finding for the knowledge of the life history of S. fatalis.
  
  