El Bosque (Pleistocene of Nicaragua)
Where: Nicaragua (13.3° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 86.5° W)
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; green claystone
• "green clay" thought to represent a "swamp or pond"; series of six dates gave unreliable results due to lack of collagen, contamination, and leaching; locality thought to be earlier than late Wisconsinan based on this and on geomorphology; see also Gruhn 1978
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: W. D. Page. 1978. The geology of the El Bosque archaeological site, Nicaragua. Early Man in America from a Circum-pacific Perspective 231-260 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71267: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.02.1999, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• identifications by Miller and Lundelius
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unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912 gomphothere
Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837 gomphothere | |
? Notoungulata indet. Roth 1903 notoungulate | |
Mixotoxodon larensis Van Frank 1957 notoungulate | |
Eremotherium laurillardi Lund 1842 edentate | |
Megalonychidae indet. Gervais 1855 edentate | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
Reptilia | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle |