PBDB Collection

Rio Tomayate ( of El Salvador)

Where: El Salvador (13.8° N, 89.2° W: paleocoordinates 13.9° N, 88.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

• "two successive bonbeds... The entire fossiliferous package... is approximately 1.6 m. thick... The lower bonebed is approximately 0.9 m thick and the majority of the vertebrates were collected here... The upper bonebed is approximately 0.7 m thick."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, brown ash

• "The matrix is a light brown unconsolidated ash with abundant pyroclasts and fragmentary vegetal remains."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: "several hundred specimens... a sample of the most relevant specimens" is described; "All specimens are held at MUHNES, in San Salvador."

Primary reference: J. C. Cisneros. 2005. New Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from El Salvador. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 8(3):239-255 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70118: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.03.2007, edited by Juan Carrillo

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
Testudines - Testudinidae	Hesperotestudo crassiscutata Hesperotestudo crassiscutata Leidy 1889 turtle
Testudines - Emydidae	Emydidae indet. Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 turtle
Testudines - Kinosternoidea	Kinosternon sp. Kinosternon sp. von Spix 1824 mud turtle
Crocodylia - Crocodylidae	Crocodylus acutus Crocodylus acutus Cuvier 1807 American crocodile
Aves
Anseriformes - Anatidae	cf. Anser sp. cf. Anser sp. Linnaeus 1758 goose
Mammalia
Proboscidea - Elephantidae	Mammuthus columbi² Mammuthus columbi² Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth 2-ss-ap-30-893
Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae	Cuvieronius tropicus Cuvieronius tropicus Cope 1884 gomphothere
Notoungulata - Toxodontidae	Mixotoxodon larensis Mixotoxodon larensis Van Frank 1957 notoungulate
Carnivora - Canidae	aff. Canis sp. aff. Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
Perissodactyla - Equidae	Equus conversidens Equus conversidens Owen 1869 horse
Artiodactyla - Cervidae	Odocoileus cf. virginianus, Mazama sp. Odocoileus cf. virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer Mazama sp. Rafinesque 1817 brocket deer
Artiodactyla - Camelidae	"Hemiauchenia cf. seymourensis" = Hemiauchenia macrocephala, Palaeolama sp. "Hemiauchenia cf. seymourensis" = Hemiauchenia macrocephala Cope 1893 camel Palaeolama sp. Gervais 1869 camel
Lagomorpha - Leporidae	Sylvilagus sp. Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae	Megalonyx sp. Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate
Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae	Eremotherium sp. Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948 edentate
Cingulata - Glyptodontidae	"Glyptotherium arizonae" = Glyptotherium texanum "Glyptotherium arizonae" = Glyptotherium texanum Osborn 1903 glyptodon
Cingulata - Pampatheriidae	Holmesina septentrionalis¹ Holmesina septentrionalis¹ Leidy 1889 edentate

¹Aguilar and Laurito 2009; ²Laurito and Aguilar 2007