Tecolotlan (Hemphillian): Hemphillian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
cf. Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Conepatus sanmiguelensis Wang and Carranza-Castaneda 2008
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
Agriotherium ? schneideri Sellards 1916
recombined as Huracan schneideri
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Borophagus secundus VanderHoof 1931
Carbot-Chanona et al. 2009
recombined as Eucyon ferox
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Dinohippus mexicanus (Lance 1950)
original and current combination Pliohippus (Pliohippus) mexicanus
? Astrohippus sp. (Stirton 1940)
    = Astrohippus stockii Lance 1950
Carbot-Chanona et al. 2009
original and current combination Pliohippus (Astrohippus) stockii
Neohipparion eurystyle (Cope 1893)
Nannippus minor (Sellards 1916)
    = Nannippus aztecus Mooser 1968
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894
    = Teleoceras hicksi Cook 1927
Carbot-Chanona et al. 2009
Mammalia - Camelidae
cf. Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
? Hexobelomeryx sp. Furlong 1941
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Notolagus sp. Wilson 1937
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]