La Goleta: Blancan, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Lampropeltis intermedius
Brattstrom 1955
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Brattstrom 1955 | |||||||||
| from CIT 505 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Brattstrom 1955 | |||||||||
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= Testudinidae indet.
Batsch 1788
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Alroy 2003 | |||||||||
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= Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Reynoso 2006 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Kinosternon sp.
von Spix 1824
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Brattstrom 1955 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Rhynchotherium praecursor
(Cope 1893)
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Miller and Carranza-Castaneda 1984 | |||||||||
| "mastodont" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapiridae indet.
(Gray 1821)
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| original and current combination Taperidae | ||||||||||
| "tapir" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Nannippus phlegon
(Hay 1899)
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= Nannippus peninsulatus
Cope 1885
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Miller and Carranza-Castaneda 1984 | |||||||||
| may include "Nannippus cf. montezuma" (= Hippotherium montezuma, a nomen dubium: see MacFadden 1984b) | ||||||||||
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Equus simplicidens
Cope 1892
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Carranza-Castaneda 1992 | |||||||||
| recombined as Plesippus simplicidens | ||||||||||
| "E. (Dolichohippus) sp." of Miller and Carranza 1984; probably also includes "Pliohippus cf. osborni," which was compared to Dinohippus mexicanus and Pliocene Equus; this is an old Stirton i.d. and I believe it is repeated incorrectly by Miller and Carranza 1984 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Antilocapridae indet.
Gray 1866
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| "antilocaprid" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Tayassuidae indet.
Palmer 1897
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| "peccary" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| "camel" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Hyaenidae indet.
Gray 1821
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= Chasmaporthetes ossifragus
Hay 1921
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Kurten and Werdelin 1988 | |||||||||
| replaces ID of Miller and Carranza 1984; "C. sp." of Berta 1981 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Paenemarmota barbouri
Hibbard and Schultz 1948
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| seems OK because it is repeated by Miller and Carranza (5 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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? Paranotolagus sp.
Miller and Carranza-Castaneda 1982
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White 1991 | |||||||||
| "rabbit" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Michoacan |
| Coordinates: | 19.7° North, 101.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.8° North, 100.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Goleta | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: date of 3.6 Ma KA on "lentes de ceniza volcanica": Carranza 1992 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | CIT |
| Taxonomic list comments:upper levels have yielded Mammuthus sp. and Equus cf. conversidens: Carranza 1992 list based on Arellano and Azcon 1949, repeated by Miller and Carranza 1984 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Colonia Miguel Hidalgo; C.I.T. locality 505 | ||
| Database number: | 20072 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | J. Tennant | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2013-05-03 10:06:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2867. | C. A. Repenning. 1962. The Giant Ground Squirrel Paenemarmota. Journal of Paleontology 36(3):540-556 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 9310 | 5% 43300 | B. H. Brattstrom. 1955. Records of some Pliocene and Pleistocene reptiles and amphibians from Mexico. Bulletin, Southern California Academy of Sciences 54(1):1-4 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] |
| 695 | B. H. Brattstrom. 1955. Pliocene and Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles from southeastern Arizona. Journal of Paleontology 29(1):150-154 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy] | |
| 1176 | 5% 54420 | O. Carranza-Castaneda. 1992. Una nueva localidad del henfiliano tardio en la mesa central de Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas 10(2):179-196 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
| 2194 | B. Kurten and L. Werdelin. 1988. A Review of the Genus Chasmaporthetes Hay, 1921 (Carnivora, Hyaenidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8(1):46-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
| 2594 | W. E. Miller and O. Carranza-Castaneda. 1984. Late Cenozoic Mammals from Central Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4(2):216-236 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
| 46663 | V.-H. Reynoso. 2006. Research on fossil amphibians and reptiles in Mexico, from 1869 to early 2004 (including marine forms but excluding pterosaurs, dinosaurs, and obviously, birds). In F. J. Vega, T. G. Nyborg, M. Del Carmen Perrilliat, M. Montellano-Ballesteros, S. R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz, S. A. Quiroz-Barroso (eds.), Studies on Mexican Paleontology 24:209-231 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 3633 | J. A. White. 1991. North American Leporinae (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) from late Miocene (Clarendonian) to latest Pliocene (Blancan). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(1):67-89 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |