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
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
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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
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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
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