Skull Ridge: Early/Lower Barstovian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Cupidinimus cf. kleinfelderi
(Storer 1970)
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Korth 1998 | |||||||||
original and current combination Perognathoides kleinfelderi | ||||||||||
"Skull Ridge Member, east of Three Sisters Buttes" (3 measurements) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Mylagaulidae
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Alphagaulus vetus
(Matthew 1924)
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Korth 2013 | |||||||||
Ceratogaulus robustus n. sp.
Korth 2013
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Korth 2013 | |||||||||
Notogaulus minor
Korth 2013
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Korth 2013 | |||||||||
Notogaulus major
Korth 2013
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Korth 2013 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Untermannerix copiosus
Rich 1981
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Rich 1981 | |||||||||
South Skull Ridge, Skull Ridge Mbr. | ||||||||||
Metechinus amplior
Rich 1981
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Rich 1981 | |||||||||
Skull Ridge | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Aphelops megalodus
(Cope 1873)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
includes "Tesque Locality" and "Skull Ridge" from ""Skull Ridge Member" | ||||||||||
Peraceras profectum
(Matthew 1899)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
Teleoceras brachyrhinum n. sp.
Prothero 2005
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Anchitheriinae indet.
(Leidy 1869)
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Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 | |||||||||
original and current combination Anchitheridae | ||||||||||
"unnamed genus close to Anchitherium"; presumably includes "Anchitherium sp." | ||||||||||
Megahippus sp.
McGrew 1938
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Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 | |||||||||
"small" | ||||||||||
Hypohippus cf. pertinax
Matthew 1918
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Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 | |||||||||
Merychippus cf. intermontanus
Merriam 1915
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recombined as Scaphohippus intermontanus | ||||||||||
Merychippus isonesus
(Cope 1889)
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recombined as Acritohippus isonesus | ||||||||||
said to be "close to" isonesus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Rakomylus sp.
Frick 1937
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= Rakomylus raki
Frick 1937
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Frick and Taylor 1968 | |||||||||
Australocamelus sp.
Patton 1969
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Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 | |||||||||
Michenia sp.
Frick and Taylor 1971
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Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 | |||||||||
Protolabis sp.
Cope 1876
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Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 | |||||||||
Aepycamelus sp.
Macdonald 1956
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Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 | |||||||||
Paramiolabis sp.
Kelly 1992
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Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 | |||||||||
= Paramiolabis minutus
Pagnac 2005
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Pagnac 2005 | |||||||||
Miolabis sp.
Hay 1899
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Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 | |||||||||
Nothotylopus sp.
Patton 1969
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Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Moschidae
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Blastomeryx gemmifer
(Cope 1874)
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Prothero 2008 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Dromomeryx borealis
(Cope 1877)
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Prothero and Liter 2008 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Meryceros sp.
Frick 1937
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= Merycodus sp.
Leidy 1854
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Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 | |||||||||
probably includes "Meryceros crucensis" of Frick 1937 | ||||||||||
Cosoryx ilfonsensis
Frick 1937
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
F:AM 31437 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merychyus sp.
Leidy 1858
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see Schultz and Falkenbach 1947: "Lower... 'Santa Fe Beds'" | ||||||||||
Brachycrus laticeps
(Douglass 1900)
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= Brachycrus siouense
Sinclair 1915
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Kelly and Lander 1988 | |||||||||
"Brachycrus laticeps siouense": "B. sp." of Schultz and Falkenbach 1940 from SE of White Operation, Skull Ridge, and East Skull Ridge, "Lower... 'Santa Fe Beds'"; "B. rusticus riograndensis" type of Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Amphicyon ingens
Matthew 1924
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Amphicyon sinapius
Matthew 1902
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recombined as Cynelos sinapius | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
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Bassariscus cf. parvus
Hall 1927
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Baskin 2004 | |||||||||
"west of Cuyamunque"; "southeast of White Operation"; "Third District"; "Skull Ridge" (sensu stricto); "west of highway and north of boundary of Pojoaque Grant, above #4 white ash"; "J Rak wash, 25 feet above ash F" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Plithocyon sp.
Ginsburg 1955
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Hunt 1998 | |||||||||
said to be new; "Hemicyon sp." | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Leptocyon leidyi
Tedford et al. 2009
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Tedford et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Osbornodon fricki n. sp.
Wang 1994
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Wang 1994 | |||||||||
from Skull Ridge N of Pojoaque Church and S of Arroyo Seco | ||||||||||
Cynarctoides acridens
(Barbour and Cook 1914)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
"Tesuque Grant, Skull Ridge Member... Santa Fe County" | ||||||||||
Tomarctus cf. confertus
(Matthew 1918)
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= Microtomarctus cf. conferta
Matthew 1918
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Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 | |||||||||
at "Santa Cruz"; "South Skull Ridge"; "3 mi from Cuyamunque, left side of road"; "Upper Skull Ridge"; "west Cuyamunque, Tesuque Pueblo just south of north boundary"; Joe Rack Wash"; "Nambe Creek side of Divide, 12 ft above Ash 'B'"; "8 ft below Ash 'B'"; "White Operation District"; "North Skull Ridge, 40 ft above white layer"; "Tesuque Grant between Arroyo Ancho and Rio Tesuque"; "north of Tesuque Grant, north boundary Tesuque East, Cuyamunque" | ||||||||||
Paracynarctus kelloggi
(Merriam 1911)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
"Cuyamunque"; "Tesuque"; "east of Tesuque"; "east of Tesuque Fault"; "west of Tesuque, Tesuque Boundary wash, light band east of Tesuque Fault"; "1 mi east of Cuyamunque"; and "5 ft below Ash A in block no. 3 south of Arroyo Seco, Skull Ridge" | ||||||||||
Psalidocyon marianae n. sp.
Wang et al. 1999
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
"southeast of White Operation, Skull Ridge Member... Sante Fe County" | ||||||||||
Tomarctus brevirostris
Cope 1873
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
"Skull Ridge"; "Third District" | ||||||||||
Tomarctus hippophaga
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
"Southeast of White Operation Wash"; "Cuyamunque"; "One mi north of White Operation" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Accipitriformes
- Accipitridae
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Palaeoborus umbrosus
(Cope 1874)
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Becker 1987 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Santa Fe |
Coordinates: | 35.5° North, 106.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.1° North, 103.1° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Barstovian | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.97000 - 13.60000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Tesuque | Member: | Skull Ridge |
Local section: | Espan | Local bed: | 2 |
Local order: | bottom to top |
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 |
Museum repositories: | AMNH |
Taxonomic list comments:includes White Operation Quarry (see), but list is quite different FT on zircon dates, in Ma: No. 2 white ash: 14.6 +/- 1.2 No. 4 white ash: 14.1 +/- 1.1 second date on No. 4 ash (Izett & Naeser 1986): 12.7 +/- 1.4 No. 4 white ash redated at 15.42 +/- 0.06 Ma (SCLF Ar-Ar on sanidine) by McIntosh and Quade 1995; No. 3 white ash dated at 15.65 +/- 0.065 Ma according to Quade (1999 personal communication); White Operation Quarry is "just below" the No. 4 ash according to McIntosh and Quade No. 2 ash redated at 15.59 +/- 0.07 Ma (SCLF AA on sanidine): Kuhle and Smith 2001 underlies Pojoaque Mbr. "Cosoryx ilfonsensis" of Frick 1937 is omitted by Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 |
Metadata
Database number: | 19547 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot, M. Uhen | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen, J. Marcot |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2012-03-25 05:26:37 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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75080 | J. J. Becker. 1987. Neogene Avian Localities of North America 1-171 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
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