Where: Mexico, Mexico (19.6° N, 99.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• in a "65 cm" thick bed "indisputably within a Pleistocene level equivalent to the lower part of the Upper Becerra formation"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; poorly lithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, green, argillaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

• believed to be a kill site and includes six artifacts: a "Scottsbluff type" projectile point, two scrapers, two flake knives, and a blade

•mostly complete, closely associated and partially articulated skeleton although one femur was "isolated from the rest of the skeleton by more than 2 m" and "most of the skull and tusks had been destroyed in the ditch operation"

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collected by L. Avelayra, M. Maldonado-Koerdell, A. Romano in 1950, 1952

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

• apparently reposited in the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia

•discovered by "workers opening an irrigation ditch" in 1950 and excavated by the authors in 1952

Primary reference: L. Aveleyra Arroyo de Anda and M. Maldonado-Koerdell. 1953. Association of artifacts with mammoth in the Valley of Mexico. American Antiquity 18(4):332-340 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 93639: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.01.2010

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