El Golfo de Santa Clara: Blancan, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus imperator (Leidy 1858)
synonym of Mammuthus columbi
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius sp. Osborn 1923
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Procyon sp. Storr 1780
Croxen, iii and Sussman 2000
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Taxidea sp. Waterhouse 1839
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Tremarctos cf. floridanus (Gidley 1928)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis edwardii Gazin 1942
Tedford et al. 2009
Canis cf. rufus Audubon and Bachman 1851
    = Canis lepophagus Johnston 1938
Tedford et al. 2009
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis cf. rexroadensis Stephens 1959
    = Lynx sp. Kerr 1792
Alroy 2002
not discussed by Werdelin 1985
Felis onca Linnaeus 1758
    = Panthera cf. onca Linnaeus 1758
Alroy 2002
cf. Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Chasmaporthetes johnstoni (Stirton and Christian 1940)
    = Chasmaporthetes ossifragus Hay 1921
Kurten and Werdelin 1988
also mentioned by Berta 1981
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Mammalia - Bovidae
Ovis sp. Linnaeus 1758
said to be new; only Irvingtonian record, and not discussed by Kurten and Anderson 1980
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Tetrameryx (Stockoceros) sp. Lull 1921
    = Stockoceros sp. Skinner 1942
Alroy 2002
Tetrameryx sp. Lull 1921
Croxen, iii and Sussman 2000
may include additional antilocaprid of Lindsay
Mammalia - Camelidae
Titanotylopus sp. Barbour and Schultz 1934
    = Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
could be Gigantocamelus
cf. Palaeolama sp. Gervais 1869
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880
small
Hemiauchenia cf. blancoensis (Meade 1945)
    = Hemiauchenia cf. macrocephala Cope 1893
Alroy 2002
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
large
Equus cf. conversidens Owen 1869
Equus aff. complicatus Leidy 1858
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Croxen, iii and Sussman 2000
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Hodomys sp. Merriam 1894
"Neotoma (Hodomys) sp."
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825
"N. (Neotoma) sp."
Sigmodon curtisi Gidley 1922
Shaw and McDonald 1987
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor cf. californicus Kellogg 1911
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
Hydrocoeridae neochoerus
    = Neochoerus sp. Hay 1926
Alroy 2002
must be Neochoerus in light of Mones 1991
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon sp. Brown 1903
Croxen, iii and Sussman 2000
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx wheatleyi Cope 1871
Mammalia - Nothrotheriidae
Nothrotheriops sp. Hoffstetter 1954
    = Nothrotheriops texanus Hay 1916
McDonald 1995
original and current combination Nothrotherium texanum
Mammalia - Myrmecophagidae
Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus 1758
Shaw and McDonald 1987
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Sonora
Coordinates: 31.7° North, 114.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.6° North, 113.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Quaternary *Epoch:Pleistocene
*Local age/stage:Blancan
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Blancan
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:some indication this could be a mixed fauna
"more than 900 mapped vertebrate fossil localities": Croxen and Sussman 2000
31*40'N 114*30'W: Shaw and McDonald 1987
said to be Blancan by Kurten and Werdelin 1988, but Irvingtonian by Lindsay and by Shaw and McDonald 1987
Metadata
Database number:20322
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-07-15 19:01:05
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 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]
1288 F. W. Croxen, iii and D. R. Sussman. 2000. Vertebrate paleontology of the middle Pleistocene Colorado River Delta, northwestern Sonora, Mexico. GPS and GIS applications. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3):37A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2194 B. Kurten and L. Werdelin. 1988. A Review of the Genus Chasmaporthetes Hay, 1921 (Carnivora, Hyaenidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8(1):46-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2499 H. G. McDonald. 1995. Gravigrade xenarthrans from the early Pleistocene Leisey Shell Pit 1A, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(11) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3105 C. A. Shaw and H. G. McDonald. 1987. First Record of Giant Anteater (Xenarthra, Myrmecophagidae) in North America. Science 236(4798):186-188 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
52058 R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]