Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 87.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Nacimiento Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NMMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: T. E. Williamson and S. L. Brusatte. 2013. New Specimens of the Rare Taeniodont Wortmania (Mammalia: Eutheria) from the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Comments on the Phylogeny and Functional Morphology of “Archaic” Mammals. PLoS ONE 8(9):e75886:1-35 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174235: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 06.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Wortmania otariidens Cope 1885 taeniodont NMMNH P-19460 (left and right partial ulnae, left and right partial radiae, a partial left magnum, left and right metacarpals II, III, and IV, and two partial unguals)
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