Osbornoceros Quarry: Late/Upper Hemphillian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Aphelops mutilus
Matthew 1924
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
| "Opposite Lyden Quarry" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Megatylopus sp.
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
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| original and current combination Pliauchenia (Megatylopus) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Plioceros blicki
Frick 1937
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Osbornoceros osborni n. sp.
Frick 1937
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| see Frick 1937 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Chamitaxus avitus n. gen., n. sp.
Owen 2006
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Owen 2006 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Vulpes stenognathus
Savage 1941
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Canini indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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= Canis ferox
Miller and Carranza-Castaneda 1998
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Tedford et al. 2009 | |||||||||
| recombined as Eucyon ferox | ||||||||||
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Osteoborus secundus
(VanderHoof 1931)
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= Borophagus secundus
VanderHoof 1931
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| apparently "Leyden Quarry" specimen of Wang et al. 1999 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Rio Arriba |
| Coordinates: | 36.5° North, 107.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.9° North, 105.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Hemphillian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Chamita |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | AMNH |
| Collection method comments: Frick collection made in 1935 | |
| Taxonomic list comments:identity with Leyden Quarry based on placement of O. osborni type by Frick 1937 stratigraphic level relative to type Chamita section is NOT determinate but is assumed based on fauna | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Leyden Quarry; Lyden Quarry; ESP. 251-535 | ||
| Database number: | 19473 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-05-21 20:51:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3380. | R. H. Tedford and S. F. Barghoorn. 1993. Road Log Neogene geology of the Española Basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin 2:169-178 [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] | |
| 24361 | P. R. Owen. 2006. Description of a new late Miocene American badger (Taxidiinae) utilizing high-resolution X-ray computed tomography. Palaeontology 49(5):999-1011 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 52058 | R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd] |