Arroyo El Belén (12 m) ( of Mexico)

Also known as GTO-4

Where: Guanajuato, Mexico (21.1° N, 100.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 100.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rancho Viejo Beds Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

• correlated with chron C2An.1n

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, gray, green, white, silty, sandy claystone

• the beds "probably were deposited as point bar sequences in a meandering river channel and as adjacent floodplain deposits"
• "The sedimentary and volcaniclastic Rancho Viejo Beds are green to gray to white, weakly indurated, friable, clays and silty to sandy clays, with variable sand, gravel, and tuffaceous components."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. J. Flynn, B. J. Kowallis, C. Nuñez, O. Carranza-Castañeda, W. E. Miller, C. C. Swisher, III, and E. Lindsay. 2005. Geochronology of Hemphillian-Blancan aged strata, Guanajuato, Mexico, and implications for the timing of the Great American Biotic Interchange. Journal of Geology 113:287-307 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70117: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptotherium sp.
Glyptotherium sp. Osborn 1903 glyptodon
  - Mylodontidae
Glossotherium sp.
Glossotherium sp. Owen 1840 edentate