Archuleta Creek (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Colfax County, New Mexico (36.9° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 104.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "in a deeply undercut, eroding section of the south bank of the creek... ca. 4 m below the present surface"

•specimen carbon dated as 10,190 +/- 30 ybp

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; siliciclastic sediments

• specimen was "lying along the upper, undulating surface of what appeared to be Pleistocene-age gravel, and largely contained within and overlain by fine, overbank sediments"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• only selected elements of the skeleton were collected

Primary reference: D. J. Meltzer, D. H. Mann, and J. M. LaBelle. 2004. A Bison antiquus from Archuleta Creek, Folsom, New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 21:107-109 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74360: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.2007

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison antiquus
Bison antiquus Leidy 1852 bison