Coprolite Point: Torrejonian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
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? Peradectes sp.
Matthew and Granger 1921
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"D" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Protoselene opisthacus
(Cope 1882)
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UALP 7650, 7653/7785/7878 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Periptychidae
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Periptychus carinidens
Cope 1881
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Taylor 1981 | |||||||||
UALP 7653/7785/7878; not clear why this is omitted by Williamson and Lucas 1993 and Williamson 1996 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Tetraclaenodon puercensis
(Cope 1881)
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UALP 7653/7785/7878 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Chriacus pelvidens
(Cope 1881)
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Chriacus baldwini
(Cope 1882)
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Arctocyon ferox
(Cope 1883)
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Mammalia
- Viverravidae
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Protictis vanvaleni
MacIntyre 1966
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= Intyrictis ? vanvaleni
MacIntyre 1966
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
UALP 7653/7785/7878: may include "Protictis sp." of Taylor 1981 from UALP 7653/7785/7878 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Acreodi
- Oxyclaenidae
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Deltatherium fundaminis
Cope 1881
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UALP 7650 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Acreodi
- Triisodontidae
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Goniacodon levisanus
(Cope 1883)
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Mammalia
- Mixodectidae
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Mixodectes malaris
(Cope 1884)
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UALP 7650 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Pantolambdidae
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Pantolambda cavirictum
Cope 1883
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Mammalia
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Psittacotherium multifragum
Cope 1882
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | San Juan |
Coordinates: | 36.3° North, 108.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.9° North, 88.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Torrejonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 63.80000 - 60.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Nacimiento | ||||
Local section: | KutzC | Local bed: | 13 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: high in a reversed magnetic polarity zone in the Kutz Canyon section interpreted as C27r based on the position of the K-T boundary in the correlative Barrel Spring Arroyo = De-na-zin Wash section: see Butler et al. 1977, Lucas et al. 1997 |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:identical to list 5 of Williamson 1996 UALP provenances based on Taylor 1981 |
Metadata
Also known as: | NMMNH 1482, 2658; UALP 73124, 7650, 7651, 7653, 7785, 7878 | ||
Database number: | 14825 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-11-16 11:39:19 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
3649. | T. E. Williamson and S. G. Lucas. 1993. Paleocene vertebrate paleontology of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin 2:105-136 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
2319 | S. G. Lucas, T. E. Williamson, and M. D. Middleton. 1997. Catopsalis (Mammalia: Multituberculata) from the Paleocene of New Mexico and Utah: taxonomy and biochronological significance. Journal of Paleontology 71(3):484-492. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/K. Maguire] | |
3375 | L. H. Taylor. 1981. The Kutz Canyon Local Fauna, Torrejonian (Middle Paleocene) of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico;. In S. G. Lucas, J. K. Rigby Jr., B. S. Kues (eds.), Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology 242-263 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |