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

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