Cerrilos (C1) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Santa Fe County, New Mexico (35.5° N, 106.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 91.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: lower Member (Galisteo Formation), Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas. 1982. Vertebrate paleontology, stratigraphy, and biostratigraphy of Eocene Galisteo Formation, north-central New Mexico. New Mex Bur Mines & Mineral Resources, Circular 186:1-34 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 15459: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus powellianus Cope 1884 condylarth
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
 Rodentia - Paramyidae
Paramyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918 rodent
 Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyopidae indet. Osborn and Wortman 1892 primate