Fondo de Río La Pasión - Locality 7: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Guatemala
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Toxodontidae
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Mixotoxodon larensis
Van Frank 1957
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Cuvieronius hyodon
(Fischer 1814)
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| original and current combination Mastotherium hyodon | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Pecari tajacu
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus sp.
Rafinesque 1832
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Palaeolama sp.
Gervais 1869
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus sp.
Brisson 1762
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Caviidae
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Neochoerus sp.
Hay 1926
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Paramylodon sp.
Brown 1903
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx sp.
Harlan 1825
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Mammalia
- Megatheriidae
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Eremotherium laurillardi
(Lund 1842)
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Glyptodontidae
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Glyptotherium sp.
Osborn 1903
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Pampatheriidae
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Holmesina sp.
Simpson 1930
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Dasypodidae
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Dasypus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Geography
| Country: | Guatemala | State/province: | El Petén | County: | Sayaxché |
| Coordinates: | 16.5° North, 90.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.5° North, 90.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 118 meters |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: Dávila et al. 2019: collected by Barnum Brown during repeated field campaigns between 1940 and 1945. The collection is housed at the American Museum of Natural History at New York (AMNH). | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Río la Pasion, Sayaxche, Santa Amelia | ||
| Database number: | 189383 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Bryant, G. Varnham |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-10-14 09:51:00 | Last modified: | 2023-12-06 05:06:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-10-14 09:51:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63597. | H.G. McDonald and S.L. Dávila. 2017. Mammoths in Central America: New records from Guatemala. Quaternary International 443:122-128 [M. Uhen/J. Bryant/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 73427 | S. L. Dávila, S. R. Stinnesbeck, S. Gonzalez, S. Lindauer, J. Escamilla and W. Stinnesbeck. 2019. Guatemala's Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) fauna: Revision and interpretation. Quaternary Science Reviews 219:277-296 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] |