Tecolotlan (Irvingtonian): Irvingtonian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
? Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus semiplicatus Cope 1893
    = Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hydrochoeridae
Neochoerus cf. cordobai Carranza-Castaneda and Miller 1989
    = Neochoerus cf. dichroplax Ahearn and Lance 1980
Alroy 2002
recombined as Phugatherium dichroplax
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptotherium sp. Osborn 1903
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Jalisco
Coordinates: 20.2° North, 104.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.2° North, 103.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Irvingtonian
Age range of interval:1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:represents some fraction of "more than 40" sites in the basin
Metadata
Database number:20539
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1999-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1999-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2597. W. E. Miller and O. Carranza-Castaneda. 1998. The Tecolotlan Basin, Central Mexico: A new area for late Cenozoic terrestrial vertebrates. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3):64A [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]