Rio de la Pasion: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Guatemala
collected by B. Brown 1949
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Dasypodidae
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Dasypus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Glyptodontidae
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Glyptodon sp.
Owen 1839
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= Glyptodontinae indet.
Gray 1869
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Zurita et al. 2018 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Pampatheriidae
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Pampatherium sp.
Ameghino 1875
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Mylodon sp.
Owen 1859
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Paramylodon sp.
Brown 1903
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Mammalia
- Megatheriidae
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Megatherium sp.
Cuvier 1796
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx sp.
Harlan 1825
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Toxodontidae
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Toxodontidae indet.
Ameghino 1889
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"toxodont" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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? Cuvieronius sp.
Osborn 1923
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felidae indet.
Gray 1821
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"? Felis" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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"equid" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus sp.
Brisson 1762
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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"camelid" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Dicotyles tajacu
(Linnaeus 1758)
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recombined as Pecari tajacu | ||||||||||
(6 measurements) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Mazama sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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"Mazana" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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? Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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"? bovid" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Caviidae
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Hydrochoerus sp.
Brisson 1762
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Guatemala | State/province: | Peten |
Coordinates: | 16.3° North, 90.0° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 16.2° North, 90.0° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: specimens are possibly not from a single stratigraphic unit |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Geology comments: original geological context unclear |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float),survey of museum collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
Collectors: | B. Brown | Collection dates: | 1949 |
Collection method comments: the specimens apparently "were scoured out of the underlying strata... and washed downstream" |
Metadata
Database number: | 71312 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Carrillo |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | ||
Created: | 1999-02-14 11:41:56 | Last modified: | 2008-12-02 20:34:17 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-02-14 11:41:56 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
23972. | M. O. Woodburne. 1969. A late Pleistocene occurrence of the collared peccary, Dicotyles tajacu, in Guatemala. J Mamm 50(1):121-125 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
66406 | A. E. Zurita, D. D. Gillette, F. Cuadrelli and A. A. Carlini. 2018. A tale of two clades: Comparative study of Glyptodon Owen and Glyptotherium Osborn (Xenarthra, Cingulata, Glyptodontidae. Geobios 51(3):247-258 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo] |