Kutz Canyon (UALP 7897): Torrejonian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Viverravidae
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Protictis cf. haydenianus
(Cope 1882)
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Mammalia
- Acreodi
- Triisodontidae
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Triisodon cf. antiquus
(Cope 1882)
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= Triisodon cf. quivirensis
Cope 1881
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Tetraclaenodon puercensis
(Cope 1881)
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Williamson and Lucas 1993 | |||||||||
| from NMMNH 2660, "approximately equivalent" to UALP 7897 and 7899 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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cf. Mioclaenus turgidus
Cope 1881
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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 | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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: | 2 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: show by Tomida as near the top of a normal zone, but near the middle of a normal magnetic polarity zone in the Kutz Canyon section interpreted as C28n 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: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:appears to be the "Lower Kutz Canyon" fauna of Archibald et al. 1987, said to be To0 more precise than the list given by Taylor 1981 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 14862 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-11-16 15:36:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3434. | Y. Tomida. 1981. "Dragonian" fossils from the San Juan Basin and status of the "Dragonian" Land Mammal "age". In S. G. Lucas, J. K. Rigby Jr., B. S. Kues (eds.), Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology 222-241 [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] | |
| 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] |