Rancho Lobo: Hemphillian, Honduras

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Cormohipparion ingenuum (Leidy 1885)
1 specimen
    = Hippotherium ingenuum Leidy 1885
Hulbert 1988
recombined as Cormohipparion ingenuum
"Hipparion plicatile" of Webb and Perrigo 1984, based on 4 F:AM specimens from the "Lobo" area, not necessarily Rancho Lobo; "probably" also "Neohipparion montezuma" of Olson and McGrew
Cormohipparion plicatile (Leidy 1887)
Miller et al. 2022
Pliohippus hondurensis n. sp. Olson and McGrew 1941
15 specimens
    = Calippus hondurensis Olson and McGrew 1941
Alroy 2002
37 additional specimens listed by Hulbert 1988a
Mammalia - Camelidae
Protolabis cf. heterodontus (Cope 1874)
Webb and Perrigo 1984
one new specimen
Procamelus sp. Leidy 1858
1 specimen
    = Procamelus cf. grandis Gregory 1939
Webb and Perrigo 1984
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Osteoborus cyonoides (Martin 1928)
1 specimen
    = Borophagus secundus VanderHoof 1931
Webb and Perrigo 1984
"Amphicyon"; reported by McGrew 1944b as from "Gracias"; confirmed by Wang et al. 1999
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Blickotherium blicki Frick 1933
2 specimens
    = Rhynchotherium cf. blicki Frick 1933
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:Honduras
Coordinates: 14.6° North, 88.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.8° North, 87.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Hemphillian
Age range of interval:10.30000 - 4.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gracias
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:62 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:NISP 62
"cervid indet.": Webb and Perrigo 1984 include this in a discussion of Pseudoceras skinneri, but 1) locality data in Olson and McGrew are contradictory, and 2) there is no evidence that this particular specimen is determinate
Metadata
Database number:18739
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Alroy, G. Varnham
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2023-07-29 09:45:23
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2695. E. C. Olson and P. O. McGrew. 1941. Mammalian fauna from the Pliocene of Honduras. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 52:1219-1244 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1951 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1988. Cormohipparion and Hipparion (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Late Neogene of Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 33(5):229-338 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
81715 S. Miller, A. L. Valerio, A. Sudasassi and C. A. Laurito. 2022. Cormohipparion quinni (Mammalia, Equidae, Hipparionini) del Mioceno Medio (Barstoviano Tardío) del Norte de Costa Rica. Revista Geológica de América Central 66:1-8 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
3575 S. D. Webb and S. C. Perrigo. 1984.  Late Cenozoic Vertebrates from Honduras and El Salvador. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4(2):237-254 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]