Kutz Canyon (UALP 7674): Torrejonian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
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Psittacotherium multifragum
Cope 1882
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Mammalia
- Periptychidae
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Anisonchus sectorius
(Cope 1881)
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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 | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Torrejonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 63.30000 - 61.70000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Nacimiento | ||||
Local section: | KutzC | Local bed: | 5 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: not far below the middle 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 |
Metadata
Database number: | 14866 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-11-16 15:08:32 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |