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of vertebrate and invertebrate-associated fauna), we agree that the Mexican studied sites were open areas where the grasses were nondominant and probably a more heterogeneous land- scape. These paleoenvironments were coetaneous, occurring during the early and middle Wisconsin glacial stages. Our paleoecological inferences on the diet of these bison
samples require further testing. Future studies must be focused on other species found in these fossil mammal assemblages, and in other proxies such as microwear and stable carbon isotope analyses.
Acknowledgments
We wish to thank all of the members of the Paleontology Labora- tory (Laboratorio de Paleontología) from the UMSNH (Uni- versidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo) and the OEI (Organización Especial de Investigación de La Piedad) who parti- cipatedinthe field campaigns of the fossiliferous deposits of Michoacán-Guanajuato and kindly allowed us to study their col- lections.We thank the kind help of F. Rivals for providing the raw mesowear data of the fossil bison from Blackwater Draw, New Mexico and for clarifying the use of the 0−3 univariatemesowear score. We acknowledge the comments of two anonymous reviewers, which helped improve this paper. Funding for collecting the Pleistocene specimens from Viko Vijin was provided by CONACyT-Ciencia Básica project 101626 to EJ-H.
Accessibility of supplemental data
Data available from the Dryad Digital Repository: https://doi. org/10.5061/dryad.9k4h503.
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