Cenote Kambul: Hemphillian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Xenosiren yucateca n. gen., n. sp.
Domning 1989
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Aetomylaeus sp.
Garman 1908
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Cantalice et al. 2025 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Galeocerdidae
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Galeocerdo sp.
Müller and Henle 1837
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| more derived than G. aduncus | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Hemigaleidae
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Yucatan |
| Coordinates: | 21.1° North, 89.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.6° North, 87.1° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Hemphillian |
| Age range of interval: | 9.4 - 4.7 m.y. ago |
| Age estimate: | 10 to 4.6 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Carrillo Puerto | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,white "limestone" |
| Lithology description: white shelly limestone | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Cenote Noc Ac | ||
| Database number: | 58451 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-02-07 08:25:17 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-02-07 08:25:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 16571. | D. P. Domning. 1989. Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. III. Xenosiren yucateca, gen. et sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(4):429-437 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 52088 | L. G. Barnes. 2002. Evolutionary history of the fossil marine mammals of Mexico. In M. M. Ballesteros, J. A. Cabrales (eds.), Advances en los Estudios Paleomastozoologicos en Mexico 125-225 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 13595 | R. W. Boessenecker, D. J. Eheret, D. J. Long, M. Churchill, E. Martin and S. J. Boessenecker. 2019. The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific. PeerJ 7:e6088 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 90960 | K. M. Cantalice, H. E. Salgado-Garrido, E. Sosa-Rodríguez, K. Vilchis-Zapata, and G. González-Barba Underwater Archaeological Atlas. 2025. Underwater paleontology inside cenotes reveals the Miocene-Pliocene fish diversity in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast Mexico. PLOS ONE 20(2):e0315382 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |