First record of Bison antiquus from the Late Pleistocene of southern Mexico

Jiménez-Hidalgo, Eduardo; Cabrera-Pérez, Lucía; MacFadden, Bruce J.; Guerrero-Arenas, Rosalía

doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2012.07.011

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“…1972; Hillson, 2005) tal como se puede apreciar en el ejemplar BUAPALZ-979. El diastema mandibular en Bos es ancho y elevado, pero no afilado, mientras que en Bison el diastema tiene un margen afilado y un borde ligeramente convexo (Schmid, 1972;Jiménez-Hidalgo et al, 2013); estas características identifican al ejemplar BUAPALZ-979 perteneciente al género Bison. Los molares inferiores se compararon con ejemplares de mandíbulas de Bison antiquus de Ingleside, Texas, reportados por Lundelius (1972), y se encontró que los molares del ejemplar estudiado son similares en tamaño a los de Bison antiquus (Tabla 1), por lo que el ejemplar BUAPALZ-979 se identificó como perteneciente a esta especie de bisonte.…”

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Nuevos registros de mamíferos Pleistocénicos de San Mateo Huexoyucán, Tlaxcala, y el segundo registro de juveniles de Mammuthus en México

Sánchez-Salinas¹,

Jiménez-Hidalgo²,

Cruz³

et al. 2020

BOL. SOC. GEOL. MEX.

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The fossils from San Mateo Huexoyucan, Tlaxcala, Mexico are formally described in this work. The specimens collected since 2011 include cranial and postcranial elements of Pleistocene Megafauna. The identification of the elements allows to postulate that they correspond to six previously reported species for the study area (Bison antiquus, Camelops hesternus, Cuvieronius hyodon, Equus conversidens, E. mexicanus and Mammuthus sp.), highlighting the presence of fossil material that corresponds to a juvenile individual of proboscideans (Mammuthus sp.) and glyptodonts (cf. Glyptotherium floridanum).

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Nuevos registros de mamíferos Pleistocénicos de San Mateo Huexoyucán, Tlaxcala, y el segundo registro de juveniles de Mammuthus en México

Sánchez-Salinas¹,

Jiménez-Hidalgo²,

Cruz³

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BOL. SOC. GEOL. MEX.

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“…2, left) is composed mainly of fluvial sequences with abundant silty to sandy strata; at the base of the sequence, there are volcanic tuffs or breccias. Fossils occur in clayey and sandy strata with some silt and abundant caliches or nodular calcretes (Jiménez-Hidalgo et al, 2011, 2013).…”

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“…Selected molars were identified as Bison antiquus by morphological and morphometric comparison with teeth from the literature (Allen, 1876; Chandler, 1916; Hillson, 2005), by direct comparison with osteological collections (such as the one at the Laboratorio de Arqueozoología ‘M. en C. Ticul Álvarez Solórzano,’ Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City), and by their association with several isolated horn cores and complete skulls of this species in the study localities (McDonald, 1981; Jiménez-Hidalgo et al, 2013).…”

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“…Of these species, B. bison appears between 4 and 5 ka, during the early Holocene in southern Canada (Wilson et al, 2008). Among Pleistocene species, B. antiquus has the widest geographic range in Mexico, with fossil material from Baja California (Skinner and Kaisen, 1947; Ferrusquía-Villafranca and Torres-Roldán, 1980; McDonald, 1981), Baja California Sur (McDonald, 1981), Estado de México (Hibbard, 1955), Jalisco (Downs, 1956; McDonald, 1981; Lucas, 2008), Puebla (McDonald, 1981), San Luis Potosí (Skinner and Kaisen, 1947; McDonald, 1981), Michoacán (Díaz-Sibaja, 2013), and Oaxaca (Jiménez-Hidalgo et al, 2013).…”

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A combined mesowear analysis of MexicanBison antiquusshows a generalist diet with geographical variation

Díaz-Sibaja¹,

Jiménez-Hidalgo²,

Ponce-Saavedra³

et al. 2018

J. Paleontol.

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Bison antiquus Leidy, 1852 was one of the largest and most widely distributed megafaunal species during the Late Pleistocene in North America, giving rise to the modern plains bison in the middle Holocene. Despite the importance of the ancient bison, little is known about its feeding ecology. We employed a combination of extended mesowear, and mesowear III to infer the dietary preference and habitat use of three Mexican samples of B. antiquus. These included two northern samples—La Piedad-Santa Ana and La Cinta-Portalitos—from the Transmexican Volcanic Belt morphotectonic Province, as well as one southern sample—Viko Vijin—from the Sierra Madre del Sur morphotectonic province. We found that the northern Mexican samples were primarily nonstrict grazers, whereas the southern sample displays a pattern consistent with mixed feeding habits. This suggests variability among the diets of the bison from these samples, caused by different paleoenvironments. This evidence complements the paleoenvironmental reconstructions in the studied localities; for the northern samples, open prairies composed of patches of woodland or shrubland and, for the southern locality, a fluvial floodplain with short-lived vegetation. In both scenarios, grasses (Poaceae) were nondominant. The dietary habits of our samples of ancient bison in Mexico are the southernmost dietary inference for the species in North America and expand our knowledge of the dietary habits of B. antiquus during the Late Pleistocene.

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“…although use of open woodland is more common (Meagher, 1986). Prehistoric North American bison ranged from Alaska to southern Mexico, inhabiting habitats from semidesert to boreal forest (McDonald, 1981;Jiménez-Hidalgo et al, 2013 (Benecke, 2005). The species became extinct in the wild in 1926-1927(Heptner et al, 1966Pucek, 2004).…”

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Dietary traits of the late Early Pleistocene Bison menneri (Bovidae, Mammalia) from its type site Untermassfeld (Central Germany) and the problem of Pleistocene ‘wood bison’

Asperen

Kahlke²

2017

Quaternary Science Reviews

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First record of Bison antiquus from the Late Pleistocene of southern Mexico

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

Nuevos registros de mamíferos Pleistocénicos de San Mateo Huexoyucán, Tlaxcala, y el segundo registro de juveniles de Mammuthus en México

Nuevos registros de mamíferos Pleistocénicos de San Mateo Huexoyucán, Tlaxcala, y el segundo registro de juveniles de Mammuthus en México

A combined mesowear analysis of MexicanBison antiquusshows a generalist diet with geographical variation

Dietary traits of the late Early Pleistocene Bison menneri (Bovidae, Mammalia) from its type site Untermassfeld (Central Germany) and the problem of Pleistocene ‘wood bison’

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