Sweet's Ranch (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Santa Fe County, New Mexico (35.5° N, 106.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 97.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: upper Member (Galisteo Formation), Duchesnean (39.7 - 37.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: C. E. Stearns. 1943. The Galisteo Formation of north-central New Mexico. Journal of Geology 51:301-319 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 16860: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• listed by West et al. 1987 as Duchesnean

•this could be one of the Tonque localities discussed by Lucas 1982, or "the Duchesneodus quarry (Stearns' quarry)" mentioned by Lucas and Emry 2004 that yielded a Brachyhyops viensis m1

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Angelarctocyon cf. australis2 Gustafson 1986 bear-dog
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Brontotheriidae indet.1 Marsh 1873 brontothere