El Barrio (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Also known as HGO-47

Where: Hidalgo, Mexico (20.1° N, 98.9° W: paleocoordinates 20.1° N, 98.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; volcaniclastic sediments

• Translated from Spanish:

•Sedimentary deposits are recognized unnamed Quaternary alluvial fans that form and valley fill, consisting of clays and silts poorly consolidated interbedded with irregular fenoclastos volcanic gravel composed of varying block size and composition shingle intermediate mafic

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. M. Bravo-Cuevas, E. Ortiz-Caballero, and M. A. Cabral-Perdomo. 2009. Gliptodontes (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae) del Pleistoceno Tardío (Rancholabreano) de Hidalgo, Centro de México. Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana 61(2):267-276 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 113409: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 30.07.2011, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
"Glyptotherium floridanum" = Glyptotherium cylindricum
"Glyptotherium floridanum" = Glyptotherium cylindricum Brown 1912 Florida glyptodont
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia gracilis1 Meachen 2005 camel
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Capromeryx minor2 Taylor 1911 pronghorn
UAHMP-1121 and -3925
Stockoceros conklingi2 Stock 1930 pronghorn
UAHMP-1117, -1118 and -1119