Rincon Quarry: Barstovian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Kinosternon rincon n. sp.
Bourque 2015
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Bourque 2015 | |||||||||
| FAM 13822 (holotype), nearly complete carapace, plastron, and partial skull of a young adult | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Leptocyon vafer
(Leidy 1858)
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Tedford et al. 2009 | |||||||||
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Aelurodon ferox
Leidy 1858
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| see also Wang et al. 1999: also at "East fork of the Canyada del Milpas" in the same area near Jemez Creek | ||||||||||
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Tomarctus temerarius
(Leidy 1858)
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= Paratomarctus temerarius
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| see Wang et al. 1999 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Moschidae
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Longirostromeryx wellsi
(Matthew 1904)
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Prothero 2008 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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"Merychippus" sp.
Leidy 1856
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| "primitive species of... Neohipparion" | ||||||||||
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Pliohippus sp.
Marsh 1874
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Peraceras hessei
Prothero and Manning 1987
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Rio Arriba |
| Coordinates: | 36.5° North, 107.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.1° North, 103.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Barstovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Santa Fe | Member: | "Middle Red" |
| Local section: | RdZia | Local bed: | 8 |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 19519 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, A. Dunhill, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, B. Allen, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | B. Allen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2023-07-29 09:28:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3378. | R. H. Tedford. 1981. Mammalian biochronology of the late Cenozoic basins of New Mexico. Geological Society America Bulletin 92 [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] | |
| 64337 | J. R. Bourque. 2015. New mud turtles (Kinosternidae,Kinosternon) from the middle–late Miocene of the United States. Journal of Paleontology 89(5):821-844 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 51375 | D. R. Prothero. 2008. Systematics of the musk deer (Artiodactyla: Moschidae: Blastomerycinae) from the Miocene of North America. In S. G. Lucas, G. S. Morgan, J. A. Spielmann, D. R. Prothero (eds.), Neogene Mammals 44:207-223 [J. Marcot/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] |