Where: Sonora, Mexico (30.3° N, 110.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 110.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "very late Pleistocene (approximately Wisconsin)" based on mammal fauna
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. Brown in 1928; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: J. Cracraft. 1968. First record of the turkey Meleagris gallopavo from the Pleistocene of Mexico. The Condor 70(3):274 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 74471: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Meleagris gallopavo Linnaeus 1758 wild turkey | |
Mammalia | |
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere | |
"Archidiskodon imperator" = Mammuthus columbi
"Archidiskodon imperator" = Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 imperial mammoth | |
"Equus cf. tau" = Plesippus simplicidens
"Equus cf. tau" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse | |
"Bison cf. alleni" = Bison latifrons
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