Barranca del Berrendo (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Also known as HGO-28

Where: Hidalgo, Mexico (20.0° N, 98.6° W: paleocoordinates 20.0° N, 98.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; volcaniclastic sediments

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•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 113410: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 30.07.2011, edited by Jonathan Marcot and Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
"Glyptotherium floridanum" = Glyptotherium cylindricum
"Glyptotherium floridanum" = Glyptotherium cylindricum Brown 1912 Florida glyptodont
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Capromeryx minor2
Capromeryx minor2 Taylor 1911 pronghorn
UAHMP-330 and -331
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia gracilis1
Hemiauchenia gracilis1 Meachen 2005 camel
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
aff. Hesperotestudo sp.3, Gopherus sp.3
aff. Hesperotestudo sp.3 Williams 1950 turtle
9th and 10th left peripheral plates (UAHMP 4146)
Gopherus sp.3 Rafinesque 1832 gopher tortoise
7th and 8th left costal plates (UAHMP 4194)
1Bravo-Cuevas et al. 2012; 2Bravo-Cuevas et al. 2013; 3Medina-Castañeda et al. 2022