PBDB Collection

Kutz Canyon (KUVP loc. 14): Torrejonian, New Mexico

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela

	Habrosaurus dilatus Gilmore 1928	Sullivan and Lucas 1986
	"KU collection... Kutz Canyon (Torrejonian)"
Reptilia

	Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768	Kues et al. 1977	2 specimens
Reptilia - Anguidae

	Anguidae indet. Gray 1825	Sullivan and Lucas 1986
	"KU collections of Kutz Canyon (Torrejonian)"

	Proxestops jepseni (Gilmore 1942)	Sullivan and Lucas 1986
	synonym of Proxestops silberlingii
	"KU ... Torrejonian strata of Kutz Canyon": Odaxosaurus cf. piger of Sullivan 1981

	Machaerosaurus torrejonensis Gilmore 1928	Sullivan and Lucas 1986
	"KU collections... Torrejonian strata of Kutz Canyon"
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Taeniolabididae

	Catopsalis fissidens Cope 1884	Lucas et al. 1997
	NMMNH 624, 625, 628 DUPLICATE REF 2294 or 2295 or 2314 or 2319
Mammalia

	Conoryctella pattersoni Schoch and Lucas 1981

	Psittacotherium multifragum Cope 1882
Mammalia - Pantolambdidae

	Pantolambda intermedium Simpson 1935
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae

	Mioclaenus turgidus Cope 1881

	Protoselene opisthacus (Cope 1882)

	Promioclaenus lemuroides (Matthew 1897)

	Promioclaenus acolytus (Cope 1882)
Mammalia - Acreodi - Oxyclaenidae

	Coriphagus encinensis (Matthew and Granger 1921)

	Deltatherium fundaminis Cope 1881
Mammalia - Acreodi - Triisodontidae

	Goniacodon levisanus (Cope 1883)

	Triisodon quivirensis Cope 1881
Mammalia - Viverravidae

	Protictis sp. (Matthew)
	= Viverravidae indet. Wortman and Matthew 1899	Alroy 2002
	form "A"

	Protictis haydenianus (Cope 1882)
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae

	Tetraclaenodon puercensis (Cope 1881)
	present at UALP 75139, see Taylor 1981
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae

	Arctocyonidae indet. Murray 1866
	said to be new and "near Desmatoclaenus"

	Deuterogonodon noletil Van Valen 1978

	Chriacus pelvidens (Cope 1881)

	Mimotricentes subtrigonus (Cope 1881)
	recombined as Tricentes subtrigonus

	Chriacus baldwini (Cope 1882)

	Microclaenodon assurgens (Cope 1884)
Mammalia - Periptychidae

	Haploconus angustus (Cope 1881)

	Periptychus carinidens Cope 1881

	Anisonchus sectorius (Cope 1881)
Mammalia - Pantolestidae

	Pentacodon inversus (Cope 1888)
Mammalia - Mixodectidae

	Mixodectes malaris (Cope 1884)
Mammalia - Primates

	Palaechthon torrejonius n. sp. (Kay and Cartmill 1977)
	of Kay and Cartmill 1977 "Palaechthon" nacimienti of Wilson and Szalay 1972; see also Van Valen 1994
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	New Mexico	County:	San Juan
Coordinates:	36.6° North, 108.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	43.2° North, 88.0° West
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Altitude:	1884 meters
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:	4
Local order:	bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: near the base of 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:"70 feet lower... 1/4 mile southeast of locality 13" according to Wilson and Szalay 1972 identical to list 2 of Williamson 1996; both lists omit multis includes NMMNH sites

Metadata

Also known as:	NMMNH 624, 625, 627, 628, 1258, 1259, 1260, 1261, 1263, 1397, 2628, 2630, 2716, 2718, 2726; UALP 75139, 78100; KU-14
Database number:	14865
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, M. Carrano	Enterer:	J. Alroy, M. Carrano
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1994-04-30 00:00:00	Last modified:	2007-11-16 15:13:43
Access level:	the public	Released:	1994-04-30 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]
15088	ETE	B. S. Kues, J. W. Froehlich, J. A. Schiebout and S. G. Lucas. 1977. Paleontological survey, resource assessment, and mitigation plan for the Bisti-Star Lake Area, northwestern New Mexico. Report to the Bureau of Land Management, Albuquerque, New Mexico [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Uhen]
2294		S. G. Lucas, G. E. Alvarado, and E. Vega. 1997. The Pleistocene Mammals of Costa Rica. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(2):413-427 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
727		R. M. Sullivan and S. G. Lucas. 1986. Annotated list of lower vertebrates from the Paleocene Nacimiento Formation (Puercan-Torrejonian), San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 20(2):202-209 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]