Yeroconte: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Honduras

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus conversidens Owen 1869
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Puma concolor (Linnaeus 1771)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Mixotoxodon larensis Van Frank 1957
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptotherium floridanum (Simpson 1929)
synonym of Glyptotherium cylindricum
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium laurillardi (Lund 1842)
see common names

Geography
Country:Honduras State/province:Copan
Coordinates: 14.9° North, 88.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.9° North, 88.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: muddy not reported
Lithology description: “it represents a swampy setting, with bones and some pebbles accumulated at the bottom of about a meter of black organic mud, which overlies a clean gray stratum.”
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:230462
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:K. Magoulick
Modifier:K. Magoulick
Created:2023-06-21 18:02:11 Last modified:2023-06-21 18:06:09
Access level:the public Released:2023-06-21 18:02:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
85081. S. G. Lucas. 2008. Pleistocene Mammals from Yeroconte, Honduras. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 44:403-408 [P. Holroyd/K. Magoulick/K. Magoulick]