Fondo de Río La Pasión - Locality 7 (Pleistocene of Guatemala)

Also known as Río la Pasion, Sayaxche, Santa Amelia

Where: El Petén, Guatemala (16.5° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.5° N, 90.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Dávila et al. 2019: collected by Barnum Brown during repeated field campaigns between 1940 and 1945. The collection is housed at the American Museum of Natural History at New York (AMNH).

Primary reference: H.G. McDonald and S.L. Dávila. 2017. Mammoths in Central America: New records from Guatemala. Quaternary International 443:122-128 [M. Uhen/J. Bryant/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 189383: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Jeffrey Bryant on 14.10.2017, edited by Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth
Lower left third molar
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius hyodon Fischer 1814 gomphothere
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Mixotoxodon larensis Van Frank 1957 notoungulate
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptotherium sp. Osborn 1903 glyptodon
 Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina sp. Simpson 1930 edentate
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypus sp. Linnaeus 1758 armadillo
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium laurillardi Lund 1842 edentate
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate
  - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon sp. Brown 1903 edentate
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Palaeolama sp. Gervais 1869 camel
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Pecari tajacu Linnaeus 1758 collared peccary
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Neochoerus sp. Hay 1926 caviomorph