Where: San Luis Potosí, Mexico (22.3° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 22.6° N, 99.1° W)
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When: San Nicolás Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, fine-grained, calcareous, cherty/siliceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: I. Ferrusquía-Villafranca, J. E. Ruiz-González, E. Martínez-Hernández, J. R. Torres-Hernández, and G. Woolrich-Piña. 2014. A new Miocene local fauna from the Sierra Madre Oriental at San Luis Potosí, Central-East Mexico, and its paleontologic significance. Geobios 47(4):199-220 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 173691: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 10.10.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pliohippus potosinus n. sp.
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