Barranca del Sisimico (Pleistocene to of El Salvador)

Where: El Salvador (13.8° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 13.8° N, 88.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cuscatlán Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, tuffaceous sandstone

• fine tuffaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 20152: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• list pertains only to "upper sandstone"
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx obtusidens Webb and Perrigo 1985 edentate
Meizonyx salvadorensis n. gen. n. sp. Webb and Perrigo 1985 edentate
UF 27513 - holotype
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948 edentate
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Mixotoxodon sp. Van Frank 1957 notoungulate
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius sp. Osborn 1923 gomphothere
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle