Rio Tomayate: Blancan, El Salvador
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Anseriformes
- Anatidae
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cf. Anser sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Reptilia
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Crocodylus acutus
Cuvier 1807
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Hesperotestudo crassiscutata
(Leidy 1889)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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Emydidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Kinosternon sp.
von Spix 1824
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Glyptodontidae
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Glyptotherium arizonae
Gidley 1926
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synonym of Glyptotherium texanum | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Pampatheriidae
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Holmesina septentrionalis
(Leidy 1889)
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Aguilar and Laurito 2009 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Megatheriidae
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Eremotherium sp.
Spillmann 1948
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx sp.
Harlan 1825
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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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Laurito and Aguilar 2007 | |||||||||
2-ss-ap-30-893 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Cuvieronius tropicus
(Cope 1884)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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aff. Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus conversidens
Owen 1869
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Palaeolama sp.
Gervais 1869
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Hemiauchenia cf. seymourensis
(Hibbard and Dalquest 1962)
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synonym of Hemiauchenia macrocephala | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Mazama sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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Odocoileus cf. virginianus
(Zimmermann 1780)
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Sylvilagus sp.
Gray 1867
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | El Salvador | County: | Apopa |
Coordinates: | 13.8° North, 89.2° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 13.9° North, 88.9° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Blancan |
Age range of interval: | 4.90000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "two successive bonbeds... The entire fossiliferous package... is approximately 1.6 m. thick... The lower bonebed is approximately 0.9 m thick and the majority of the vertebrates were collected here... The upper bonebed is approximately 0.7 m thick." |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | brown unlithified ash |
Lithology description: "The matrix is a light brown unconsolidated ash with abundant pyroclasts and fragmentary vegetal remains." | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Associated major elements: | none |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collection method comments: "several hundred specimens... a sample of the most relevant specimens" is described; "All specimens are held at MUHNES, in San Salvador." |
Metadata
Database number: | 70118 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Carrillo |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-03-17 17:55:09 | Last modified: | 2022-02-22 05:36:08 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-17 17:55:09 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
23537. | J. C. Cisneros. 2005. New Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from El Salvador. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 8(3):239-255 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
64964 | D. H. Aguilar and C. A. Laurito. 2009. El armadillo gigante (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pampatheriidae) del río Tomayate, Blancano tardío - Irvingtoniano temprano, El Salvador, América Central. Revista Geológica de América Central 41:25-36 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo] | |
64963 | C. A. Laurito and D. H. Aguilar. 2007. El registro de Mammuthus (Proboscidea, Elephantidae) en la República de El Salvador, América Central. Revista Geológica de América Central 34:73-81 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo] |