Where: Jalisco, Mexico (20.3° N, 103.6° W: paleocoordinates 20.3° N, 103.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Deposits on both sides of the small island are part of the same lake bed, and the fossils occurred in undisturbed material in the bottom of the lake. Large mammalian fauna is typical of the Late Pleistocene.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1964-1965; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: H. Howard. 1969. Avian fossils from three Pleistocene sites in central Mexico. Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science 172:1-11 [J. Alroy/K. Sears/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192628: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.04.2018

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