Chinobampo (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Where: Sonora, Mexico (27.0° N, 109.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 109.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; black, argillaceous limestone

• "a basalt flow dammed the arroyo, causing an impoundment in which sediments... were deposited"
• "argillaceous lime, lime, and black lime"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. C. Blick, H. S. Gentry in 1937; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: J. I. Mead, S. L. Swift, R. S. White, H. G. McDonald, and A. Baez. 2007. Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) glyptodont and pampathere (Xenarthra, Cingulata) from Sonora, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 24(3):439-449 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 85159: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.12.2008

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Taxonomic list

• a "human skull and some fragmentary postcranial remains" are "possibly from the same layer"
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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp.
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison sp.
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelops sp.
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptotherium cylindricum
Glyptotherium cylindricum Brown 1912 glyptodon