La Goleta ( of Mexico)

Also known as Colonia Miguel Hidalgo; C.I.T. locality 505

Where: Michoacan, Mexico (19.7° N, 101.1° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 100.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Goleta Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

• date of 3.6 Ma KA on "lentes de ceniza volcanica": Carranza 1992

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CIT

Primary reference: C. A. Repenning. 1962. The Giant Ground Squirrel Paenemarmota. Journal of Paleontology 36(3):540-556 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20072: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

• upper levels have yielded Mammuthus sp. and Equus cf. conversidens: Carranza 1992

•list based on Arellano and Azcon 1949, repeated by Miller and Carranza 1984

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Paenemarmota barbouri Hibbard and Schultz 1948 squirrel
seems OK because it is repeated by Miller and Carranza
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
? Paranotolagus sp.6 Miller and Carranza-Castaneda 1982 rabbit
"rabbit"
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapiridae indet. Gray 1821 tapir
"tapir"
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Nannippus peninsulatus4 Cope 1885 hipparionine horse
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens2 Cope 1892 horse
"E. (Dolichohippus) sp." of Miller and Carranza 1984; probably also includes "Pliohippus cf. osborni," which was compared to Dinohippus mexicanus and Pliocene Equus; this is an old Stirton i.d. and I believe it is repeated incorrectly by Miller and Carranza 1984
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897 peccary
"peccary"
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
"camel"
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866 pronghorn
"antilocaprid"
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Rhynchotherium praecursor4 Cope 1893 gomphothere
"mastodont"
Reptilia
 Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Kinosternon sp.1 von Spix 1824 mud turtle
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp.5 Linnaeus 1758 turtle
 Squamata - Colubridae
Lampropeltis intermedius1 Brattstrom 1955 colubrid snake
from CIT 505