Where: Jalisco, Mexico (20.1° N, 104.1° W: paleocoordinates 20.2° N, 103.7° W)
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; poorly lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. G. McDonald and O. Carranza-CastaƱeda. 2017. Increased xenarthran diversity of the Great American Biotic Interchange: a new genus and species of ground sloth (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Megalonychidae) from the Hemphillian (late Miocene) of Jalisco, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 91(5):1069-1082 [M. Uhen/J. Bryant/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 189787: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Jeffrey Bryant on 13.11.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Glyptotherium cylindricum Brown 1912 glyptodon | |
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse | |
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary | |
aff. Stockoceros indet. Skinner 1942 pronghorn | |
Neochoerus occidentalis caviomorph |