Caçando megafauna? Considerações sobre uma pintura rupestre de Lajedão do Riacho Largo, Central (BA), Brasil

Rock paintings in the Northeast of Brazil depict several animal species of the local fauna. A painting described in the region of Lajedao do Riacho Largo, in the municipality of Central in the State of Bahia was identified in the mid-1980s as the hunting of a Toxodon , a large extinct animal that inhabited South America. Since then, such identification has been criticized by several researchers. We propose a new identification of the portrayed animal as an adult female of the Pantanal Deer, Blastocerus dichotomus . The presence of such deer, currently extinct in the region, would represent the most eastern occurrence of this species in the Brazilian territory.