San Mateo, Huexoyucan (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Where: Tlaxcala, Mexico (19.4° N, 98.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 98.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Carbot-Chanona, L. E. Gómez-Pérez, and M. A. Coutiño-José. 2022. A new specimen of Eremotherium laurillardi (Xenarthra, Megatheriidae) from the Late Pleistocene of Chiapas, southern of Mexico, and comments about the distribution of the species in Mexico. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 74(2):A070322 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226032: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 13.06.2022, edited by Katherine Magoulick

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
BUAPALZ-1044
Equus mexicanus Hibbard 1955 horse
BUAPALZ-1045
Equus conversidens Owen 1869 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelops hesternus Leidy 1873 camel
BUAPALZ-1036
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
"Bison antiquus" = Bison antiquus, "Bison (cf. Bison) occidentalis" = Bison antiquus
"Bison antiquus" = Bison antiquus Leidy 1852 bison
BUAPALZ-1046
"Bison (cf. Bison) occidentalis" = Bison antiquus Leidy 1852 bison
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius hyodon Fischer 1814 gomphothere
BUAPALZ-1062
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
"Glyptotherium (cf. Glyptotherium) floridanum" = Glyptotherium cylindricum
"Glyptotherium (cf. Glyptotherium) floridanum" = Glyptotherium cylindricum Brown 1912 Florida glyptodont
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium laurillardi Lund 1842 edentate
Sánchez et al. (2016)