One Mile East of Arizpe (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Where: Sonora, Mexico (30.3° N, 110.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 110.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "very late Pleistocene (approximately Wisconsin)" based on mammal fauna

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• none given

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Brown in 1928; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: J. Cracraft. 1968. First record of the turkey Meleagris gallopavo from the Pleistocene of Mexico. The Condor 70(3):274 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74471: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Archidiskodon imperator" = Mammuthus columbi
"Archidiskodon imperator" = Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 imperial mammoth
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus cf. tau" = Plesippus simplicidens
"Equus cf. tau" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
"Bison cf. alleni" = Bison latifrons
"Bison cf. alleni" = Bison latifrons Harlan 1825 bison
"Bison ref. alleni"
Aves
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
Meleagris gallopavo Linnaeus 1758 wild turkey