Tecolotlan (Las Gravas Beds) ( of Mexico)
Where: Jalisco, Mexico (20.2° N, 104.1° W: paleocoordinates 20.3° N, 103.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Blancan to Blancan (4.9 - 0.3 Ma)
• "latest Blancan or earliest Irvingtonian" (Carranza and Miller 2002)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and conglomerate
• "sandy to mostly conglomeratic" (Carranza and Miller 2002)
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: W. E. Miller and O. Carranza-Castaneda. 1998. Late Tertiary Canids from Central Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 72(3):546-556 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20078: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• from one or more of "more than 40" sites in the basin
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Mammalia | |
"Neochoerus cf. cordobai" = Phugatherium dichroplax
"Neochoerus cf. cordobai" = Phugatherium dichroplax Ahearn and Lance 1980 caviomorph | |
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary | |
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel | |
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens, Nannippus peninsulatus
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse | |
Rhynchotherium sp. Falconer 1868 gomphothere | |
Glyptotherium sp. Osborn 1903 glyptodon |