Also known as NMMNH L-6112

Where: Sandoval County, New Mexico (35.5° N, 106.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 106.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• a Camelops metacarpal from Fissure 1 is dated at "12,910 +/- 60 14C yrs B.P." (AMS on collagen)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; poorly lithified, gypsiferous, silty sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by D. Pino, L. Pino, G. S. Morgan, L. F. Rinehart in 2005; reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: bulk, salvage, quarrying, sieve,

• fossils were discovered "During the removal of gypsum with heavy machinery" and "plaster jacketed" for collection; "Besides removing all bones... we also collected a small samplg... (several kilograms) for screenwashing" that yielded one indeterminate rodent fossil

Primary reference: G. S. Morgan and L. F. Rinehart. 2007. Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) mammals from fissure deposits in the Jurassic Todilto Formation, White Mesa mine, Sandoval County, north-central New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 29(2):39-51 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79655: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.03.2008

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