PBDB Collection

NMMNH L-6266, Lower Hunter Wash (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Bisti Trading Post; UALP 75137, 76168; ID 804

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Hunter Wash Member (Kirtland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1975

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: L. J. Flynn. 1986. Late Cretaceous mammal horizons from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. American Museum Novitates 2845:1-30 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 14498: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

• includes lists of Clemens 1973, Lindsay et al. 1981, and Armstrong-Ziegler 1978; "cf. Peradectes" of latter may or may not be valid
list of Hunt and Lucas 1993 is based instead on Alamo Wash for unstated reasons, whereas Lower Hunter Wash is included in a composite "Fruitland Fm." list
considered Edmontonian by Lillegraven and Ostresh 1990 but Judithian by Rowe et al. 1992

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Mammalia
Theriamorpha -	Bistius bondi² Bistius bondi² Clemens and Lillegraven 1986 metatherian KU loc. NM 37
Theriamorpha - Pediomyidae	"cf. Pediomys cooki" = Leptalestes cooki "cf. Pediomys cooki" = Leptalestes cooki Clemens 1966 metatherian
Theriamorpha - Alphadontidae	Alphadon sp., Alphadon cf. marshi Alphadon sp. Simpson 1927 metatherian questionably said to be new Alphadon cf. marshi Simpson 1927 metatherian
Theriamorpha - Gypsonictopidae	Gypsonictops clemensi⁴ Gypsonictops clemensi⁴ Rigby and Wolberg 1987 eutherian
Cimolesta - Cimolestidae	cf. Cimolestes sp. cf. Cimolestes sp. Marsh 1889 eutherian
Multituberculata - Eucosmodontidae	Eucosmodontidae indet. Eucosmodontidae indet. Jepsen 1940 multituberculate
Multituberculata -	Cimexomys judithae¹ Cimexomys judithae¹ Sahni 1972 multituberculate
Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae	Mesodma sp. Mesodma sp. Jepsen 1940 multituberculate
Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae	Cimolodon sp., Cimolodon electus Cimolodon sp. Marsh 1889 multituberculate said to be new Cimolodon electus Fox 1971 multituberculate
Multituberculata - Ptilodontidae	cf. Kimbetohia campi cf. Kimbetohia campi Simpson 1936 multituberculate
Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae	Meniscoessus intermedius, cf. Essonodon sp. Meniscoessus intermedius Fox 1976 multituberculate cf. Essonodon sp. Simpson 1927 multituberculate said to be new
Reptilia
Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae	Dromaeosauridae "indet. A"⁵ Dromaeosauridae "indet. A"⁵ Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran NMMNH P-49808, 66896
Amphibia
Salientia - Pelobatidae	cf. Eopelobates sp.³ cf. Eopelobates sp.³ Parker 1929 spadefoot toad
Proteida - Batrachosauroididae	Opisthotriton kayi³, Prodesmodon copei³ Opisthotriton kayi³ Auffenberg 1961 salamander Prodesmodon copei³ Estes 1964 salamander

¹Alroy 2002; ²Clemens and Lillegraven 1986; ³Gardner and DeMar 2013; ⁴Rigby and Wolberg 1987; ⁵Williamson and Brusatte 2014