Kutz Canyon (UALP 7655): Torrejonian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Mioclaenus sp. Cope 1881
Ellipsodon grangeri Wilson 1956
Promioclaenus acolytus (Cope 1882)
Mammalia - Acreodi - Oxyclaenidae
Coriphagus encinensis (Matthew and Granger 1921)
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Tetraclaenodon puercensis (Cope 1881)
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Mimotricentes subtrigonus (Cope 1881)
recombined as Tricentes subtrigonus
Mammalia - Periptychidae
Periptychus carinidens Cope 1881
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
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:6
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:14867
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-11-16 15:09:42
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]