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)
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Mammalia | |
Borophagus secundus VanderHoof 1931 bone-crushing dog |