Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 106.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 106.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• fossils in general from this locality are of "Pleistocene or early Recent aspect"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MCZ
Collection methods: salvage,
• salvaged from "massive valley-floor excavations for a dam" and "saved through the interest" of W. H. Carr
Primary reference: G. G. Simpson. 1963. A new record of Euceratherium or Preptoceras (extinct Bovidae) in New Mexico. Journal of Mammalogy 44(4):583-584 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93255: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 10.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Euceratherium collinum Furlong and Sinclair 1904 shrub ox |