Archuleta Creek: Late/Upper Pleistocene, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison antiquus
Leidy 1852
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Colfax |
| Coordinates: | 36.9° North, 104.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.9° North, 104.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 10190 ± 30 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "in a deeply undercut, eroding section of the south bank of the creek... ca. 4 m below the present surface" specimen carbon dated as 10,190 +/- 30 ybp | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Lithology description: specimen was "lying along the upper, undulating surface of what appeared to be Pleistocene-age gravel, and largely contained within and overlain by fine, overbank sediments" | |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | late glacial |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: only selected elements of the skeleton were collected | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 74360 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-08-05 14:25:15 | Last modified: | 2010-01-14 18:34:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-08-05 14:25:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24971. | D. J. Meltzer, D. H. Mann, and J. M. LaBelle. 2004. A Bison antiquus from Archuleta Creek, Folsom, New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 21:107-109 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |