El Carrizal: Miocene, Honduras

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Calippus (Grammohippus) hondurensis (Olson and McGrew 1941)
Hulbert 1988
recombined as Calippus hondurensis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894
see common names

Geography
Country:Honduras State/province:Lempira
Coordinates: 14.7° North, 88.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.9° North, 87.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gracias
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:18723
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Marcot Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2023-11-13 12:27:19
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3575. 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]

Secondary references:

1949 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1988. Calippus and Protohippus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Miocene (Barstovian-early Hemphillian) of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 32(3):221-340 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Hulbert]