Estanzuela - Locality 5 (Pleistocene of Guatemala)

Where: Zacapa, Guatemala (15.0° N, 89.7° W: paleocoordinates 15.0° N, 89.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Dávila et al. 2019: according to a recent field survey by us (March 2018) all fossil findings appear to be located in a single stratigraphic unit, several meters thick

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• Dávila et al. 2019: fluvially transported pumitic sand and silt of volcanic origin (lahar) with convolute deformation and water-escape structures, due to repeated earthquakes.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Dávila et al. 2019: The Estanzuela locality was discovered by Barnum Brown in 1945; The fossil material is housed at the Museo de Paleontología y Arqueología Ingeniero Roberto Woolfolk Saravia (ME) in the village of Estanzuela.

Primary reference: H.G. McDonald and S.L. Dávila. 2017. Mammoths in Central America: New records from Guatemala. Quaternary International 443:122-128 [M. Uhen/J. Bryant/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 189381: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Jeffrey Bryant on 14.10.2017, edited by Grace Varnham and William Gearty

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium laurillardi2 Lund 1842 edentate
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptotherium sp.2 Osborn 1903 glyptodon
Glyptotherium cylindricum1 Brown 1912 glyptodon
ME 137, a near-complete dorsal carapace associated with ME 151–ME 163, comprising a pelvic girdle fragment, seven caudal vertebrae, a left femur, left tibio-fibula and autopodial bones; ME unregistered, a near-complete left hemimandible
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Mixotoxodon larensis2 Van Frank 1957 notoungulate
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius hyodon2 Fischer 1814 gomphothere
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth
right upper second molar; tooth fragments with the occlusal surface; upper left fourth premolar or first molar; lower right molar, either a first or second
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Neochoerus sp.2 Hay 1926 caviomorph
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 horse