Tecolotlan (Hemphillian): Hemphillian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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cf. Gomphotherium sp.
Burmeister 1837
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Conepatus sanmiguelensis
Wang and Carranza-Castaneda 2008
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Wang and Carranza-Castaneda 2008 | |||||||||
"locality JAL TECO 9 La Asunción in a deep arroyo located in the Santa Maria village in the southern part of the Tecolotlán basin about 100km south of Guadalajara City, in Tecolotlán (Jalisco) graben. The associated fauna is of late Hemphillian age ... | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Agriotherium ? schneideri
Sellards 1916
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recombined as Huracan schneideri | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Borophagus secundus
VanderHoof 1931
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Carbot-Chanona et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Canis cf. ferox
Miller and Carranza-Castaneda 1998
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recombined as Eucyon ferox | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Dinohippus mexicanus
(Lance 1950)
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original and current combination Pliohippus (Pliohippus) mexicanus | ||||||||||
? Astrohippus sp.
(Stirton 1940)
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= Astrohippus stockii
Lance 1950
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Carbot-Chanona et al. 2009 | |||||||||
original and current combination Pliohippus (Astrohippus) stockii | ||||||||||
Neohipparion eurystyle
(Cope 1893)
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Nannippus minor
(Sellards 1916)
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= Nannippus aztecus
Mooser 1968
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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= Teleoceras hicksi
Cook 1927
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Carbot-Chanona et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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cf. Hemiauchenia sp.
Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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? Hexobelomeryx sp.
Furlong 1941
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Notolagus sp.
Wilson 1937
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Jalisco |
Coordinates: | 20.2° North, 104.1° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 20.5° North, 102.5° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Neogene | ||
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
Key time interval: | Hemphillian | ||
Age range of interval: | 10.30000 - 4.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:represents a "majority" of "more than 40" sites in the basin dated at 4.89 Ma (SCLF AA on sanidine); no error given and stratigraphic position relative to fauna not indicated: Carranza and Miller 2001 |
Metadata
Database number: | 18745 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1999-09-21 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-12-20 13:23:02 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-09-21 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2596. | W. E. Miller and O. Carranza-Castaneda. 1998. Late Tertiary Canids from Central Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 72(3):546-556 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
51758 | G. Carbot-Chanona, J. Juárez-Woo, and J. R. Guzmán-Gutiérrez. 2009. Contribución al conocimiento de los rinocerontes fósiles de la Cuenca de Tecolotlán, en el estado de Jalisco, México. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 61(2):277-286 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
52291 | X. Wang and O. Carranza-Castaneda. 2008. Earliest hog-nosed skunk, Conepatus (Mephitidae, Carnivora), from the early Pliocene of Guanajuato, Mexico and origin of South American skunks. Zoological Journal Of The Linnean Society 154(2):396-407 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |