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New Cuvieronius finds from the Pleistocene of central Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros
Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros*
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Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Delegación Coyoacán, 04510 D.F., México
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In the southern part of the State of Puebla, central Mexico, the town of Tepexi de Rodriguez is a well-known fossiliferous area because of the beautiful and extraordinary Early Cretaceous vertebrates recovered from the Tlayua Quarry (Applegate, 1996; Espinosa-Arrubarrena and Applegate, 1996; Reynoso-Rosales, 1996a, 1996b, 1997, among others), and a Tertiary plant locality known as “Los Ahuehuetes” (Magallón-Puebla and Cevallos-Ferriz, 1994; Velasco de León and Cevallos-Ferriz, 1997; Ramírez-Garduño, 1998, among others). The Axamilpa river drains this area and along its banks a sequence of Late Cenozoic sands, silts, and gravels are exposed. In these sediments scattered fossil mammalian remains had been recovered (Torres-Martínez and Agenbroad, 1991; Montellano-Ballesteros and Castro-Azuara, 1996; Fig. 1).

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 76 , Issue 3 , May 2002 , pp. 578 - 583
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