Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.8° N, 107.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 107.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• peccary skeleton has a "radiocarbon age of 12,060 +/- 1,780 YBP"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. B. Bertam in 1987; reposited in the NMMNH
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying
• "Complete Archaeological Service Associates of Cortez, Colorado excavated the Oven Site in 1987 as an emergency operation prior to inundation of the site by Navajo Reservoir"
Primary reference: S. G. Lucas and R. A. Smartt. 1995. Late Pleistocene peccary from northwestern New Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 40(3):293-296 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 93256: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 10.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary |