Cinqua: Hemphillian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904
    = Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Neohipparion sp. Gidley 1903
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Michoacan
Coordinates: 17.9° North, 93.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.2° North, 92.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
*Local age/stage:Hemphillian
Key time interval:Hemphillian
Age range of interval:9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Hemphillian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:18717
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1999-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2008-01-30 15:38:11
Access level:the public Released:1999-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1181. O. Carranza-Castaneda, W. E. Miller, and B. J. Kowallis. 1998. New vertebrate faunas from the Transmexican Volcanic Belt, central Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3):31A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]