Minaca Mesa: Blancan, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Cuvieronius sp.
Osborn 1923
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= Gomphotheriidae indet.
Hay 1922
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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cf. Stegomastodon sp.
Pohlig 1912
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Nannippus phlegon
(Hay 1899)
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= Nannippus peninsulatus
Cope 1885
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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? Odocoileus sp.
Rafinesque 1832
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Antilocapridae indet.
Gray 1866
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Prosthennops sp.
Matthew and Gidley 1904
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= Tayassuinae indet.
Palmer 1897
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Chasmaporthetes johnstoni
(Stirton and Christian 1940)
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= Chasmaporthetes ossifragus
Hay 1921
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| also mentioned by Repenning 1962, Berta 1981 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis priscolatrans
Cope 1899
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= Canis edwardii
Gazin 1942
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Nowak 1979 | |||||||||
| replaces ID of Kurten and Anderson 1980; "Canidae indet." of Lindsay | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Paenemarmota barbouri
Hibbard and Schultz 1948
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Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Chihuahua |
| Coordinates: | 28.5° North, 107.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 28.6° North, 106.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
| Database number: | 20074 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2245. | E. H. Lindsay. 1984. Late Cenozoic Mammals from Northwestern Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4(2):208-215 [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] | |
| 2673 | R. M. Nowak. 1979. North American Quaternary Canis. Monograph of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 6:1-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |