Also known as Río la Pasion, Sayaxche, Santa Amelia
Where: El Petén, Guatemala (16.5° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.5° N, 90.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Dávila et al. 2019: collected by Barnum Brown during repeated field campaigns between 1940 and 1945. The collection is housed at the American Museum of Natural History at New York (AMNH).
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 189383: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Jeffrey Bryant on 14.10.2017, edited by Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Paramylodon sp. Brown 1903 edentate | |
Eremotherium laurillardi Lund 1842 edentate | |
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate | |
Glyptotherium sp. Osborn 1903 glyptodon | |
Holmesina sp. Simpson 1930 edentate | |
Dasypus sp. Linnaeus 1758 armadillo | |
Mixotoxodon larensis Van Frank 1957 notoungulate | |
Cuvieronius hyodon Fischer 1814 gomphothere | |
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Neochoerus sp. Hay 1926 caviomorph | |
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir | |
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
Palaeolama sp. Gervais 1869 camel | |
Pecari tajacu Linnaeus 1758 collared peccary | |
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine |