Las Golondrinas: Late/Upper Hemphillian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Machairodus sp. Kaup 1833
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Dinohippus mexicanus (Lance 1950)
original and current combination Pliohippus (Pliohippus) mexicanus
Neohipparion eurystyle (Cope 1893)
Nannippus peninsulatus (Cope 1885)
Alvarado-Ortega and Carranza-Castaneda 2002
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904
    = Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Hidalgo
Coordinates: 20.5° North, 99.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.8° North, 97.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
*Local age/stage:Late/Upper Hemphillian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Hemphillian
Age range of interval:10.30000 - 4.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: said to be late Hemphillian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number:18733
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1999-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:43
Access level:the public Released:1999-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1181. O. Carranza-Castaneda, W. E. Miller, and B. J. Kowallis. 1998. New vertebrate faunas from the Transmexican Volcanic Belt, central Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3):31A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
7284 J. Alvarado-Ortega and O. Carranza-Castaneda. 2002. The fossil fishes from Pliocene localities near Tula de Allende, Hidalgo, Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3, suppl.):32A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]