Dixon Sites (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.5° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 103.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Dixon Member (Tesuque Formation), Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 19320: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• county given by Wang et al. 1999
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Aelurodon taxoides Hatcher 1894 bone-crushing dog | |