Also known as Tzocuilco
Where: Mexico, Mexico (19.4° N, 98.9° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 98.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed/horizon: Capa V
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
• "In layer IV an obsidian flake was obtained . . . and a small artifact of the same material in layer V."
Collection methods: quarrying
• Repository: Departamento de Prehistoria, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico D.F.
Primary reference: A. Garcia Cook. 1968. Chimalhuacan: Un artefacto asociado a megafauna. Publicaciones, Departamento de Prehistoria, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia 21:1-42 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71320: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.02.1999, edited by Richard Hulbert and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Glyptotherium mexicanum" = Glyptotherium cylindricum
"Glyptotherium mexicanum" = Glyptotherium cylindricum Brown 1912 glyptodon "Brachyostracon mexicanus"
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Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth | |
Aves | |
Recurvirostra americana Gmelin 1789 American avocet | |
Podiceps parvus Schufeldt 1913 grebe
Aechmophorus occidentalis Lawrence 1858 western grebe | |
Fulica americana Gmelin 1789 American coot | |
Aythya affinis Eyton 1838 lesser scaup | |
Phoenicopterus copei Shufeldt 1891 flamingo |