Ojo Caliente (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.5° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 103.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: upper Chama-El Rito Member (Tesuque Formation), Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. H. Tedford and S. F. Barghoorn. 1993. Road Log Neogene geology of the Española Basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin 2:169-178 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 19470: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Leptocyon vafer3
Leptocyon vafer3 Leidy 1858 canine
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Cormohipparion cf. occidentale
Cormohipparion cf. occidentale Leidy 1856 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Peraceras profectum1, Aphelops megalodus1
Peraceras profectum1 Matthew 1899 rhinoceros
"North Ojo Caliente, Aelurodon Wash"
Aphelops megalodus1 Cope 1873 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Ustatochoerus novomexicanus2, "Ustatochoerus skinneri" = Ustatochoerus major
"Ustatochoerus skinneri" = Ustatochoerus major Leidy 1858 oreodont
this may be "U. medius novomexicanus" from "Ojo Caliente area" of Schultz and Falkenbach 1941
1Prothero 2005; 2Schultz and Falkenbach 1941; 3Tedford et al. 2009