Belen del Refugio (Neogene of Mexico)

Where: Jalisco, Mexico (21.5° N, 102.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 23.4° N, 99.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Montellano-Ballesteros. 1997. New vertebrate locality of late Hemphillian age in Teocaltiche, Jalisco, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas 14(1):84-90 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18715: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• reported in an abstract by Guzman-Guttierez and Rodriguez-Huerta (1991)
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Borophagus secundus VanderHoof 1931 bone-crushing dog