Barranca Xocoa (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Where: Puebla, Mexico (19.0° N, 98.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.0° N, 98.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

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

• These localities have been considered to be of about ~40,000–7151 years BP in age (Gonzalez et al., 2006a, 2006b; Díaz-Sibaja et al., 2020).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; travertine

• The fossil-bearing unit consists of alluvial and volcanic deposits that in some instances (such as Barranca Xocoa) includes travertine deposits that resulted from surface waters

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The studied sample is housed in the Paleontological Collection of the INAH-Puebla (CRINAHP).

Primary reference: C. I. Medina-Castañeda, V. M. Bravo-Cuevas, and J. A. Cruz. 2022. Turtles from the Late Pleistocene of Hidalgo and Puebla and their paleobiogeographic and paleoclimatic significance. Quaternary International 1-13 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226915: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 09.08.2022

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Taxonomic list

• These localities have an important record of megafauna, including fossil remains of Bison; which indicates a Rancholabrean North American land mammal age (Tovar et al., 2014; Bravo-Cuevas and Jim´enez-Hidalgo, 2015; Bravo-Cuevas et al., 2016).
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Reptilia
 Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Kinosternon sp.
Kinosternon sp. von Spix 1824 mud turtle
5th left costal plate (UAHMP 4003), right hyoplastron (UAHMP 4003)
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Gopherus berlandieri
Gopherus berlandieri Agassiz 1857 gopher tortoise
entoplastron (UAHMP 4004)