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
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
Reptilia | |
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948 edentate | |
Megalonyx obtusidens, Meizonyx salvadorensis n. gen. n. sp.
Megalonyx obtusidens Webb and Perrigo 1985 edentate | |
Mixotoxodon sp. Van Frank 1957 notoungulate | |
Cuvieronius sp. Osborn 1923 gomphothere | |
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer |