Tecolotlan (Irvingtonian) (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Where: Jalisco, Mexico (20.2° N, 104.1° W: paleocoordinates 20.2° N, 103.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: W. E. Miller and O. Carranza-Castaneda. 1998. The Tecolotlan Basin, Central Mexico: A new area for late Cenozoic terrestrial vertebrates. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3):64A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 20539: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999

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Taxonomic list

• represents some fraction of "more than 40" sites in the basin
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Hydrochoeridae
"Neochoerus cf. dichroplax" = Phugatherium dichroplax
"Neochoerus cf. dichroplax" = Phugatherium dichroplax Ahearn and Lance 1980 caviomorph
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptotherium sp. Osborn 1903 glyptodon
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
? Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799 mastodon