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:
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".