Pleistocene Mammals from Aguascalientes, Central Mexico

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Hundreds of fossils of middle Pleistocene age mammals have been obtained from the tufa, sands, and gravels of the Tacubaya Formation just east of the City of Aguascalientes, in central Mexico. The fossils are probably of Illinoian age. This is the only large, systematically-collected, local fauna known from the Pleistocene of Mexico. Few remains of small mammals were found, but the Cedazo local fauna includes at least 39 species, three here described as new. The Cedazo local fauna is a unit fauna, representing the kinds of mammals that lived together in one small area during one period of time. The Cedazo local fauna lived on plains or grasslands with brush and trees along watercourses but with no tropical forest element in the environment.

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