Carboneras River: Late Miocene, Guatemala

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Lucas et al. 2022
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Lucas et al. 2022
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Guatemala
Coordinates: 15.6° North, 88.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.1° North, 84.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval: Late Miocene
Age range of interval: 11.63 - 5.333 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Herreria
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
Taxonomic list comments:material reidentified from Mota-Viadaurre 1989 and Madden and Mota-Vidaurre 1989
Metadata
Database number:18716
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Alroy, G. Varnham
Modifier:J. Marcot Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
2293.5% 5000S. G. Lucas and G. E. Alvarado. 1995. El proboscideo Rhynchotherium blicki (Mioceno tardio) del oriente de Guatemala. Title translated: The proboscidean Rhynchotherium blicki (upper Miocene) from eastern Guatemala. Revista Geologica de America Central 18:19-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

86742 S. G. Lucas, J. E. Romero, O. J. Vásquez and G. E. Alvarado. 2022. The fossil vertebrates of Guatemala. Revista Geológica de América Central 66 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]