Hormiguero Quarry (Pleistocene of El Salvador)

Where: El Salvador (13.5° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 13.5° N, 88.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Perrigo in 1977-1979

• Repository: Museo de Historia Natural de El Salvador (MUHNES)

Primary reference: S. D. Webb and S. C. Perrigo. 1984.  Late Cenozoic Vertebrates from Honduras and El Salvador. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4(2):237-254 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190752: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 16.12.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone sp.
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Neochoerus sp.
Neochoerus sp. Hay 1926 caviomorph
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison sp.
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet.
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon sp.
Smilodon sp. Lund 1841 saber-toothed cat
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius sp.
Cuvieronius sp. Osborn 1923 gomphothere
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Mixotoxodon cf. larensis
Mixotoxodon cf. larensis Van Frank 1957 notoungulate
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium sp.
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948 edentate
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptotherium sp.
Glyptotherium sp. Osborn 1903 glyptodon