Ceja del Rio Puerco: Barstovian - Early/Lower Clarendonian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Gomphotherium productum (Cope 1874)
    = Gomphotherium obscurum Leidy 1869
Williamson and Morgan 2001
"G. sp."
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras brachyrhinum Prothero 2005
Prothero 2005
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
    = Peraceras sp. Cope 1880
Williamson and Morgan 2001
Peraceras profectum (Matthew 1899)
Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
cf. Ramoceros sp. Frick 1937
Williamson and Morgan 2001
Mammalia - Camelidae
Michenia sp. Frick and Taylor 1971
Protolabis sp. Cope 1876
Williamson and Morgan 2001
Aepycamelinae indet. Webb 1965
    = cf. Procamelus sp. Leidy 1858
Williamson and Morgan 2001
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817
    = Martes sp. Frisch 1775
Williamson and Morgan 2001
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
    = Leptocyon vafer Leidy 1858
Williamson and Morgan 2001
Leptocyon vafer (Leidy 1858)
Tedford et al. 2009
"Ceja Prospect", "North Rio Puerco, Cerro Conejo Formation"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Eucastor sp. Allen 1877
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Sandoval
Coordinates: 35.7° North, 107.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.3° North, 104.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Late/Upper Barstovian - Early/Lower Clarendonian
Key time interval:Barstovian - Early/Lower Clarendonian
Age range of interval:16.30000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Zia Member:Cerro Conejo
Local section:RdZia Local bed:8
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be late Barstovian to early Clarendonian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:based on Tedford 1981, this is from the same geographic area and unit as Rincon Quarry (see)
apparently the "Middle Red Member" of Williamson and Morgan 1995 is the same as the "Cerro Conejo Member" of Williamson and Morgan 2001
possibly from this locality: Phelosaccomys neomexicanus Korth and Chaney 1999: "NW1/4, sec. 20, T14N, R1E, Pojoaque Member equivalent, Tesuque Formation, Santa Fe Group, Sandoval County"
Metadata
Database number:19286
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1996-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:43
Access level:the public Released:1996-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3653. T. E. Williamson and G. S. Morgan. 1995. New Mexico Geology 17(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
52058 R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]
4273 T. E. Williamson and G. S. Morgan. 2001. Avian and mammalian tracks from the middle Miocene (late Barstovian) Benavidez Ranch local fauna, Albuquerque basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 23(2):65-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]