Mesa Prospect: Hemingfordian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Archaeolagus sp. Dice 1917
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diceratheriinae indet. Dollo 1885
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Parahippus cf. tyleri Loomis 1908
recombined as Desmatippus tyleri
"cf. 'Merychippus' sp."
Mammalia - Camelidae
Protolabis sp. Cope 1876
Homocamelus sp. Leidy 1869
    = cf. Aepycamelus sp. Macdonald 1956
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Pecora
Pecora indet. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Merycodus cf. sabulonis (Matthew and Cook 1909)
recombined as Cosoryx (Paracosoryx) sabulonis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyonidae indet. Haeckel 1886
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Sandoval
Coordinates: 35.7° North, 107.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.5° North, 103.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Hemingfordian
Key time interval:Hemingfordian
Age range of interval:20.43000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Zia Sand Member:Chamisa Mesa
Local section:RdZia Local bed:5
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Hemingfordian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number:19434
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:43
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1588. C. E. Gawne. 1976. Lagomorphs from the Zia Sand Miocene of New Mexico. American Museum Novitates 2608 [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]