PBDB Collection

Santa Cruz: Barstovian, New Mexico

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae

	Russellagus sp. Storer 1970

	Hesperolagomys sp. Clark et al. 1964
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae

	Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917
	= Archaeolaginae indet.	Alroy 2002

	Panolax sanctaefidei Cope 1874
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

	Copemys loxodon (Cope 1874)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae

	Notogaulus minor n. gen., n. sp. Korth 2013	Korth 2013
	type is from South Pojoaque Bluff locality; also from Santa Cruz locality s.s.

	Notogaulus major Korth 2013	Korth 2013
	Santa Cruz locality s.s., and "Santa Clara locality"

	Mylagaulus laevis Matthew 1902
	recombined as Pterogaulus laevis

	Alphagaulus vetus (Matthew 1924)	Korth 2013
	from Southwest Pojoaque Bluffs locality
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae

	Mojavemys galushai n. sp. Korth and Chaney 1999	Korth and Chaney 1999
	UNSM 41614, 3 m below Pojoaque White Ash in the Pojoaque Member, North Pojoaque Bluffs, Rio Arriba County

	Phelosaccomys neomexicanus Korth and Chaney 1999	Korth and Chaney 1999
	UNSM 41614 (7 measurements)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae

	Perognathus minutus James 1963	Korth 1998
	"Lower Pojoaque Bluffs, Pojoaque Member"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae

	Eucastor tortus (Leidy 1858)
	"Eucastor or Monosaulax" of Tedford 1981
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Leptocyon vafer (Leidy 1858)	Tedford et al. 2009

	Microtomarctus conferta (Matthew 1918)	Wang et al. 1999
	"Camel Area"; "Third Division"; "lower Pojoaque Bluffs"; "Santa Cruz"; south Santa Cruz"; "West Cuyamunque"; "seventh wash, Santa Cruz area"; and general area Pojoaque and Tesuque sites

	Paratomarctus temerarius (Leidy 1858)	Wang et al. 1999
	"Santa Cruz, First Wash"; "Red layer, Santa Cruz, Second Wash"; "Half mi west of Santa Cruz Dam, red layer"; Pojoaque Bluffs; North, South, and West Pojoaque Bluffs; San Ildefonso

	Epicyon haydeni (Leidy 1858)	Wang et al. 1999
	"Spring west of San Ildefonso"; "San Ildefonso area"; "Half mi south of Battleship Mountain"; "Santa Fe area"; "Ojo Caliente, under lava mesa"

	Epicyon saevus (Leidy 1858)	Wang et al. 1999
	"San Ildefonso"; "Santa Cruz Red Layer"

	Carpocyon sp. Webb 1969
	= Carpocyon webbi Wang et al. 1999	Wang et al. 1999
	at "Santa Cruz, Rio Grande Slope"; "Santa Cruz Red Layer"; "Santa Cruz First Wash"; "South Pojoaque Bluffs"; "Lower Pojoaque Bluffs, west of Huerfano Fault, San Ildefonso Grant"

	Strobodon sp. Webb 1969
	= Aelurodon stirtoni Wang et al. 1999	Wang et al. 1999
	"West Santa Cruz"; "Santa Cruz, Second Wash"; "Santa Clara" (latter apparently does not mean Round Mountain Quarry)

	Canis wheelerianus n. sp. Cope 1877
	synonym of Aelurodon ferox
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

	Hemicyon ursinus (Cope 1875)
	recombined as Plithocyon ursinus
	at Pojoaque Bluffs: Hunt 1998a
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae

	Pseudocyon sp. Lartet 1851	Hunt 1998
	Pojoaque Bluffs
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Merychippus calamarius (Cope 1875)

	Neohipparion coloradense (Osborn 1918)
	= "Merychippus" coloradense Osborn 1918	MacFadden 1984
	"N. sanfondensis"; "primitive... Neohipparion" of Tedford and Barghoorn

	Cormohipparion sp. Skinner and MacFadden 1977

	Protohippus sp. (Leidy 1858)
	reassigned as Merychippus (Protohippus)

	Pliohippus sp. Marsh 1874
	possibly includes "Dinohippus sp." (probably based on unpublished MacFadden taxonomy: JA pers. obs.)

	Megahippus sp. McGrew 1938
	= Megahippus cf. mckennai Tedford and Alf 1962	Alroy 2002
	replaces ID of Tedford 1981

	Hypohippus sp. (Leidy 1858)
	original and current combination Anchitherium (Hypohippus)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Peraceras profectum (Matthew 1899)	Prothero and Manning 1987
	unspecified level in Pojoaque Mbr.; Tedford and Barghoorn list "P. crassus" and "a small species" (3 measurements)

	Aphelops sp. Owen 1845
	"including A. cf. meridianus, Cope, 1875"; suspicious as "A." meridianus is actually Teleoceras
	= Aphelops megalodus Cope 1873	Prothero 2005

	Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894

	Teleoceras brachyrhinum Prothero 2005	Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae

	Ustatochoerus californicus (Merriam 1919)

	Ustatochoerus medius (Leidy 1858)
	= Merychyus novomexicanus Frick 1929	Alroy 2002
	invalid subgroup of Ustatochoerus medius
	includes type of "Ustatochoerus medius novomexicanus": "U. profectus espanolensis" type; see also Schultz and Falkenbach 1941
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae

	Cranioceras teres (Cope 1874)
	listed by Frick 1937 at "red layer"; "second wash, red layer"; "'green'"; "Rio Grande slope"
Mammalia - Antilocapridae

	Plioceros blicki n. sp. Frick 1937

	Cosoryx sp. Leidy 1869

	Ramoceros ramosus (Cope 1874)

	Meryceros crucensis Frick 1937
	recombined as Merycodus crucensis
	"Meryceros sp." of Tedford and Barghoorn; unspecified level
Mammalia - Moschidae

	? Longirostromeryx blicki Frick 1937
	synonym of Longirostromeryx wellsi
	said by Stirton 1944 to actually be Blastomeryx; may include "L. sp." of Tedford 1981 and/or "L. novomexicanus"

	Blastomeryx francesca Frick 1937
	synonym of Blastomeryx gemmifer
Mammalia - Leptomerycidae

	Pseudoparablastomeryx sp. Frick 1937
	= Pseudoparablastomeryx francescita Frick 1937	Alroy 2002
	replaces ID of Tedford 1981
Mammalia - Camelidae

	Paramiolabis sp. Kelly 1992

	Nothotylopus sp. Patton 1969

	Miolabis sp. Hay 1899

	Australocamelus sp. Patton 1969

	Procamelus sp. Leidy 1858

	Aepycamelus sp. Macdonald 1956

	Michenia sp. Frick and Taylor 1971

	Protolabis sp. Cope 1876
Mammalia - Erinaceidae

	Untermannerix copiosus n. sp. Rich 1981
	see Rich 1981

	Metechinus amplior n. sp. Rich 1981
	see Rich 1981
Mammalia - Talpidae

	Mystipterus sp. Hall 1930

	Gaillardia sp. Matthew 1932
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae

	Gomphotherium productum n. sp. (Cope 1874)
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	New Mexico	County:	Santa Fe
Coordinates:	35.5° North, 106.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	36.1° North, 103.1° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 5
*Period:	Tertiary
Key time interval:	Barstovian
Age range of interval:	16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Tesuque	Member:	lower Pojoaque
Local section:	Espan	Local bed:	3
Local order:	bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: FT on zircon dates, in Ma: blue-gray ash: 9.4 +/- 0.9 "probably" light blue or white ash: 11.4 +/- 1.1 these dates are rejected on biochronological grounds by Tedford; this can be justified by paleomag (see Barghoorn 1981), so the date should not be used in calibration

Lithology and environment

Environment:

terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:see also Tedford 1981 includes Jacona Microfossil Quarry

Metadata

Database number:	19535
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-09-27 00:00:00	Last modified:	2009-07-15 19:13:48
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

3380.

R. H. Tedford and S. F. Barghoorn. 1993. Road Log Neogene geology of the Española Basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin 2:169-178 [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]
1933		J. G. Honey and G. A. Izett. 1988. Paleontology, taphonomy, and stratigraphy of the Browns Park Formation (Oligocene and Miocene) near Maybell, Moffat County, Colorado. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1358:1-52 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
1977		R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
2135		W. W. Korth. 1998. Cranial morphology of two Tertiary pocket mice, Perognathus and Cupidinimus (Rodentia, Heteromyidae). Paludicola 1(4):132-142 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
57239		W. W. Korth. 2013. Mylagaulid Rodents (Mammalia: Rodentia: Mylagaulidae) from the Middle Miocene (Barstovian) of New Mexico. Annals of Carnegie Museum 81(4):233-245 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
2145		W. W. Korth and D. S. Chaney. 1999. A New Subfamily of Geomyoid Rodents (Mammalia) and a Possible Origin of Geomyidae. Journal of Paleontology 73(6):1191-1200 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
6244		B. J. MacFadden. 1984. Systematics and phylogeny of Hipparion, Neohipparion, Nannippus, and Cormohipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Miocene and Pliocene of the New World. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 179(1):1-195 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
51726		D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
2807		D. R. Prothero and E. M. Manning. 1987. Miocene rhinoceroses from the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. Journal of Paleontology 61(2):388-423 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
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]
3558		X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]