Also known as El Cedral
Where: San Luis Potosi, Mexico (23.8° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.8° N, 100.7° W)
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Radioisotopic_date error method comments
•0.01077 0.00022 C14
•0.01557 0.00048 C14
•0.017587 0.000157 C14
•0.02438 0.00096 C14
•0.03184 0.0016 C14
Environment/lithology: lacustrine
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float)
Primary reference: J. L. Lorenzo and L. Mirambell. 1986. Preliminary report on archaeological and paleoenvironmental studies in the area of El Cedral, San Luis Potosi, Mexico 1977- 1980. 107-113 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 71277: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.02.1999, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Arctodus sp. Leidy 1854 bear | |
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus Leidy 1858 dire wolf | |
"Felis atrox" = Panthera leo atrox
"Felis atrox" = Panthera leo atrox Leidy 1853 lion | |
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Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel | |
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Equus cedralensis n. sp.1 Alberdi et al. 2014 horse Holotype. A mandible ramus fragment formed by two specimens: one p2-m3 right row (DP-2675 I-2 15), and a second fragment of the symphysis with the anterior dentition (DP-2674 I-2 8), articulated together and stored at the Paleontological Collection (DP-INAH) of the Laboratorio de Arqueozoología “M. en C. Ticul Álvarez Solórzano” Subdirección de Laboratorios y Apoyo Académico, INAH in Mexico City (Figure 9). Paratype series. Fragments of mandible ramii with remains of several teeth, p3-m3 right and left (DP-4577) and several upper row: P2-M2 left (P2 DP-3841, P3-P4 DP-3842, and M1-M2 DP- 3839), and three P2-M1 (DP-3829 left, and DP-3830 and DP-4587 right).
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