Tehuichila: Hemphillian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx sp.
Harlan 1825
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Carranza-Castaneda and Miller 1993 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Agriotherium sp.
Wagner 1837
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= Agriotherium schneideri
Sellards 1916
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Carranza-Castaneda et al. 2013 | |||||||||
| recombined as Huracan schneideri | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Neohipparion rectidens
(Cope 1886)
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= Neohipparion eurystyle
Cope 1893
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Dinohippus interpolatus
(Cope 1893)
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Carranza-Castaneda and Miller 1993 | |||||||||
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Calippus hondurensis
(Olson and McGrew 1941)
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Hulbert 1988 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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Miller and Carranza-Castaneda 1984 | |||||||||
| confirmed by Carranza and Miller 1993 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Hexobelomeryx sp.
Furlong 1941
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Carranza-Castaneda and Miller 1993 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| "Procamelus" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Tayassuinae indet.
Palmer 1897
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| "Prosthennops": Miller and Carranza 1984; Carranza and Miller 1993 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Cuvieronius oligobunis
(Cope 1893)
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= Cuvieronius tropicus
Cope 1884
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Gomphotherium serridens
(Cope 1884)
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= Gomphotherium obscurum
Leidy 1869
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Hidalgo |
| Coordinates: | 20.7° North, 98.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 21.0° North, 97.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene | *Local age/stage: | Hemphillian |
| Key time interval: | Hemphillian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be Hemphillian | |||||
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 |
| Taxonomic list comments:discussed as Potrero Zietla and placed at 4 km E (not W) of Zacualtiplan and 3 km N of Tehuichila on "the ranch El Suspiro" by Castilo-Ceron 2000 JVP abstract
list of Miller and Carranza 1984 seems to be repeated without revision from Freudenberg 1922 (!) some material may be Blancan according to Carranza 1991; see also Zietla type of Protohippus castilli could be anything "Neohipparion montezuma" seems to be from the Blancan Zietla fauna: Carranza and Miller 1993 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Tehuitzila | ||
| Database number: | 18746 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2020-08-11 08:58:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1482. | I. Ferrusquia-Villafranca. 1978. Bol Univ Nac Aut Mex Inst Geol 101:193-321 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 7861 | 5% 4160 | O. Carranza-Castañeda. 1991. Vertebrados fósiles del Terciario tardío del Estado de Hidalgo. Convencíon sobre la Evolución Geológica de México; Primer Congreso Méxicano de Mineralogía 23-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
| 51759 | O. Carranza-Castaneda, J. J. Aranda-Gómez, X. Wang and A. Iriondo. 2013. The Early-Late Hemphillian (Hh2) Faunal Assemblage From Juchipila Basin, State of Zacatecas, Mexico, and Its Biochronologic Correlation with Other Hemphillian Faunas in Central Mexico. Contributions to Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 521:13-49 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/P. Mannion] | |
| 6213 | O. Carranza-Castaneda and W. E. Miller. 1993. Hemphillian and Blancan equids from Hidalgo, Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3):29A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 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] | |
| 2594 | W. E. Miller and O. Carranza-Castaneda. 1984. Late Cenozoic Mammals from Central Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4(2):216-236 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |