Puente Ixcán: Hemphillian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Crocodylus sp.
Laurenti 1768
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| procoelous vertebrae and teeth | ||||||||||
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= cf. Crocodylus sp.
Laurenti 1768
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Carbot-Chanona 2017 | |||||||||
| IHNFG-4758, 5222-5225 | ||||||||||
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Caimaninae indet.
Brochu 1999
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| IHNFG 4737 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
(Gray 1825)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Dermatemydidae indet.
Baur 1888
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotherium sp.
Burmeister 1837
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Carbot-Chanona 2017 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras hicksi
Cook 1927
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= Teleoceras cf. hicksi
Cook 1927
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Carbot-Chanona 2017 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Anchitheriinae indet.
(Leidy 1869)
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| original and current combination Anchitheridae | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
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Myliobatoidei indet.
Compagno 1973
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Geography
| Country: | Mexico |
| Coordinates: | 16.1° North, 91.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.3° North, 89.5° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Hemphillian |
| Age range of interval: | 9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | silty sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: silty sandstones | |
| Environment: | lagoonal |
| Geology comments: coastal lagoon or overbank deposits | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 181304 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-09-02 08:51:59 | Last modified: | 2019-01-02 09:59:35 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-09-02 08:51:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60274. | C. A. Brochu and G. Carbot-Chanona. 2015. Biogeographic and Systematic Implications of a Caimanine from the Late Miocene of Southern Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 49(1):138-142 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 67663 | G. Carbot-Chanona. 2017. Restos de cf. Crocodylus sp. en el Mioceno tardío de Chiapas, México: importancia paleobiogeográfica y paleoambiental. Quehacer Científico en Chiapas 12(2):24-34 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |