Gabaldon Badlands Level C: Hemphillian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Dipoides cf. vallicula Shotwell 1970
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917
large
Hypolagus cf. fontinalis Dawson 1958
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Nimravides cf. catocopis (Cope 1887)
    = Nimravides cf. thinobates Macdonald 1948
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Epicyon cf. haydeni (Leidy 1858)
    = Borophagus sp. Cope 1892
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Camelidae
Alforjas sp. Harrison 1979
Michenia cf. yavapaiensis Honey and Taylor 1978
recombined as Protolabis yavapaiensis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Valencia
Coordinates: 34.8° North, 106.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.1° North, 105.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
*Local age/stage:Early/Lower Hemphillian
Key time interval:Hemphillian
Age range of interval:9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Popotosa Member:Unit 3
Local section:Gabal Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be early Hemphillian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Also known as:Lozinsky's Sites 6 and 7; Galusha's Second Horizon
Database number:19348
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:43
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2281. R. P. Lozinsky and R. H. Tedford. 1991. Geology and Paleontology of the Santa Fe Group, Southwestern Albuquerque Basin, Valencia County, New Mexico. Bulletin of the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Research 132:1-35 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]