Where: Peten, Guatemala (16.3° N, 90.0° W: paleocoordinates 16.2° N, 90.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• specimens are possibly not from a single stratigraphic unit
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. Brown in 1949; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: surface (float),
• the specimens apparently "were scoured out of the underlying strata... and washed downstream"
Primary reference: M. O. Woodburne. 1969. A late Pleistocene occurrence of the collared peccary, Dicotyles tajacu, in Guatemala. J Mamm 50(1):121-125 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71312: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.02.1999, edited by Juan Carrillo
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Hydrochoerus sp. Brisson 1762 capybara | |
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir | |
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"Dicotyles tajacu" = Pecari tajacu
"Dicotyles tajacu" = Pecari tajacu Linnaeus 1758 collared peccary | |
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Glyptodontinae indet. Gray 1869 glyptodon | |
Pampatherium sp. Ameghino 1875 edentate | |
Dasypus sp. Linnaeus 1758 armadillo | |
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate | |
Megatherium sp. Cuvier 1796 edentate | |
Paramylodon sp. Brown 1903 edentate
Mylodon sp. Owen 1859 edentate | |
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? Cuvieronius sp. Osborn 1923 gomphothere |