La Mancornada: Miocene, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Merychippus sp. Leidy 1856
"sensu lato"
Cormohipparion sp. Skinner and MacFadden 1977
    = aff. Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
? Ursidae indet. Gray 1825
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Oaxaca
Coordinates: 16.6° North, 96.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.1° North, 93.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number:18727
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:43
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
1483. I. Ferrusquia-Villafranca. 1990. Biostratigraphy of the Mexican Continental Miocene: Part I, Introduction and the Northwestern and Central Faunas. Part II, The Southeastern (Oaxacan) Faunas. Part III, The Southeasternmost (Chiapasan) Fauna and Concluding Remarks On the Discussed Vertebrate Record. Paleontologia Mexicana 56:1-149 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

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