Rio Tomayate: Blancan, El Salvador

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
cf. Anser sp. Linnaeus 1758
Reptilia
Crocodylus acutus Cuvier 1807
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Hesperotestudo crassiscutata (Leidy 1889)
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Kinosternon sp. von Spix 1824
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptotherium arizonae Gidley 1926
synonym of Glyptotherium texanum
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina septentrionalis (Leidy 1889)
Aguilar and Laurito 2009
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Mixotoxodon larensis Van Frank 1957
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi (Falconer 1857)
Laurito and Aguilar 2007
2-ss-ap-30-893
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius tropicus (Cope 1884)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
aff. Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus conversidens Owen 1869
Mammalia - Camelidae
Palaeolama sp. Gervais 1869
Hemiauchenia cf. seymourensis (Hibbard and Dalquest 1962)
synonym of Hemiauchenia macrocephala
Mammalia - Cervidae
Mazama sp. Rafinesque 1817
Odocoileus cf. virginianus (Zimmermann 1780)
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
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]