Cerro Pacho (Pleistocene of El Salvador)

Also known as Canton Laguna Seca

Where: Chalatenango, El Salvador (14.1° N, 89.4° W: paleocoordinates 14.2° N, 89.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Concepción Avendaño in 1969

• Museo de Historia Natural de El Salvador

Primary reference: C. A. Laurito and D. H. Aguilar. 2007. El registro de Mammuthus (Proboscidea, Elephantidae) en la República de El Salvador, América Central. Revista Geológica de América Central 34:73-81 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192090: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 08.03.2018

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth
P268a and P268.2