PBDB Collection

Little Pocket: Torrejonian, New Mexico

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Deltatheriidae indet.
Mammalia

	Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758	Kues et al. 1977	17 specimens

	Huerfanodon torrejonius n. sp. Schoch and Lucas 1981	Schoch and Lucas 1981
	and referred specimen from within S & G 9 and "presumably" at "approximately" the same level as KUVP 9 (1 measurement)

	Psittacotherium multifragum Cope 1882	Williamson and Lucas 1993
Mammalia - Pantolambdidae

	Pantolambda cavirictum Cope 1883	Williamson and Lucas 1993
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae

	Mioclaenus turgidus Cope 1881		24 specimens

	Protoselene opisthacus (Cope 1882)		3 specimens

	Ellipsodon grangeri Wilson 1956	Williamson and Lucas 1993
	may include "? Mioclaenus sp." said to be new

	Promioclaenus acolytus (Cope 1882)		12 specimens

	Promioclaenus ? lemuroides (Matthew 1897)		2 specimens
Mammalia - Acreodi - Oxyclaenidae

	Coriphagus encinensis (Matthew and Granger 1921)		3 specimens

	Deltatherium fundaminis Cope 1881		8 specimens
Mammalia - Acreodi - Triisodontidae

	Triisodon quivirensis Cope 1881	Williamson and Lucas 1993
Mammalia - Acreodi - Mesonychidae

	Ankalagon saurognathus (Wortman 1897)	Williamson and Lucas 1993
	original and current combination Dissacus saurognathus
	may include "? Mesonychidae indet." in part

	Dissacus navajovius (Cope 1881)	Williamson and Lucas 1993
	may include "? Mesonychidae indet." in part
Mammalia - Periptychidae

	Periptychus sp. Cope 1881

	Periptychus carinidens Cope 1881
	includes "P. rhabdodon"

	Anisonchus sectorius (Cope 1881)		11 specimens

	Haploconus angustus (Cope 1881)		55 specimens
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae

	Tetraclaenodon puercensis (Cope 1881)		16 specimens
	presumably includes "T. ? pliciferus"
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae

	Chriacus baldwini (Cope 1882)		9 specimens
	= Chriacus pelvidens Cope 1881	Williamson and Lucas 1993

	Tricentes subtrigonus (Cope 1881)		6 specimens
	= Mimotricentes subtrigonus Cope 1881	Alroy 2002
	recombined as Tricentes subtrigonus
Mammalia - Viverravidae

	Didymictis haydenianus Cope 1882		3 specimens
	= Protictis haydenianus Cope 1882	Alroy 2002
	see also Meehan and Wilson 2002
Mammalia - Pantolestidae

	Pentacodon inversus (Cope 1888)		3 specimens
Mammalia - Mixodectidae

	Mixodectes cf. malaris (Cope 1884)		6 specimens
	= Mixodectes malaris Cope 1884	Szalay 1969
Mammalia - Primates - Palaechthonidae

	Anasazia williamsoni Van Valen 1994	Van Valen 1994
	NMMNH 1112, upper Kimbetoh Arroyo; not the type, which is from an unknown locality within Kutz Canyon

	Plesiolestes wilsoni (Gazin 1968)
	= Torrejonia ? wilsoni Gazin 1968	Williamson and Lucas 1993
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Eucosmodontidae

	Eucosmodon sp. Matthew and Granger 1921		4 specimens
	= Eucosmodontidae indet. Jepsen 1940	Alroy 2002
	see figure in Wilson 1956c
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae

	Parectypodus clemensi Sloan 1981	Sloan 1981
	recombined as Krauseia clemensi
	(1 measurement)

	Mimetodon krausei n. sp. Sloan 1981	Sloan 1981
	(3 measurements)

	Ectypodus macrotomeus n. sp. Wilson 1956		1 specimen
	= Neoplagiaulax macrotomeus Wilson 1956	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Ptilodontidae

	Ptilodontidae indet. Cope 1887		1 specimen
Reptilia

	Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768	Kues et al. 1977	1 specimen
Reptilia - Anguidae

	Glyptosaurinae indet. Marsh 1872	Sullivan and Lucas 1986
	AMNH specimen from "head of Kimbeto Wash (lower level) 'Deltatherium zone'" = Sinclair and Granger Locality 8: Peltosaurus of Gilmore 1928. "AMNH specimen" is probably AMNH 5187, left and right dentary fragments, fragment of right maxilla, other bone fragments (from ref 60385)
Reptilia - Crocodylia

	Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768	Kues et al. 1977	4 specimens
	= Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842	Alroy 2006
	includes "? crocodilian scute" of Sullivan and Lucas 1986 associated with glyptosaurine
Reptilia

	Navajosuchus novomexicanus n. gen., n. sp. Mook 1942	Mook 1942
	synonym of Navajosuchus mooki
	1913 Sinclair and Olsen AMNH collection from "Head of West Fork of Kimbetoh Wash" = Sinclair and Granger Loc. 9 (1 measurement)
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae

	Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825	Sullivan and Lucas 1986
	"gar scales" associated with glyptosaurine
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	New Mexico	County:	San Juan
Coordinates:	36.3° North, 107.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	42.8° North, 87.8° West
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Altitude:	2115 meters

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	Member:	Deltatherium Zone
Local section:	Kimbe	Local bed:	4
Local order:	bottom to top

Lithology and environment

Environment:

terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Collection size:	91 specimens
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:	LACM
Taxonomic list comments:records of Williamson and Lucas 1993 could include some material from Betonnie-Tsosie Arroyo identical to list 13 of Williamson 1996 entire section is of reversed polarity according to Taylor 1981 type of Ellipsodon "yotankae" appears to be from Sinclair and Granger Locality 8; see Van Valen 1978 partial list of Taylor 1981 is repeated from Wilson almost without modification but includes Triisodon; this might be a lapsus as the KUVP 13 record of Triisodon appears in an adjacent column of Wilson's table paleomag correlation is based on entirely reversed polarity of local section, but there is no tie point and the correlation is completely ambiguous

Metadata

Also known as:	KUVP Locality 9, KU-9; Head of the West Branch of Kimbetoh Arroyo; LACM 4021; Sinclair and Granger Loc. 9; UALP 7595, 75100, 75101, 7576; UCMP 78081
Database number:	14873
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, M. Carrano	Enterer:	J. Alroy, M. Carrano
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-09-27 00:00:00	Last modified:	2007-11-10 13:35:32
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

3657.

J. A. Wilson. 1956. Miocene Formations and Vertebrate Biostratigraphic Units, Texas Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 40(9) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
18120		J. Alroy. 2006. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
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]
23756	ETE	C. C. Mook. 1942. A new fossil crocodilian from the Paleocene of New Mexico. American Museum Novitates 1189:1-4 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
3057		R. M. Schoch and S. G. Lucas. 1981. New Conoryctines (Mammalia: Taeniodonta) from the Middle Paleocene (Torrejonian) of Western North America. Journal of Mammalogy 62(4) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3195		R. E. Sloan. 1981. Systematics of Paleocene multituberculates from the San Juan Basin, NewMexico. In S. G. Lucas, J. K. Rigby Jr., B. S. Kues (eds.), Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology 127-160 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
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]
3348		F. S. Szalay. 1969. Mixodectidae, Microsyopidae, and the insectivore-primate transition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 140(4):193-330 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3488		L. M. Van Valen. 1994. The origin of the plesiadapid primates and the nature of Purgatorius. Evolutionary Monographs 15:1-79 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
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]