Llano Prieto (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Also known as Tesopaco Locality 3

Where: Sonora, Mexico (28.6° N, 110.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 110.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• fossils are from a unit "about 6 m below surface"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; argillaceous limestone and unlithified conglomerate

• "argillaceous lime and gravel"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. S. Gentry in 1936; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: J. I. Mead, S. L. Swift, R. S. White, H. G. McDonald, and A. Baez. 2007. Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) glyptodont and pampathere (Xenarthra, Cingulata) from Sonora, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 24(3):439-449 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 85157: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.12.2008, edited by Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

• Glyptotherium also was recorded in field notes by Gentry, but no specimens were located at the AMNH
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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp.
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison sp.
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison