Cuchillo Negro Creek: Blancan, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon rexroadensis Woodburne 1961
    = Stegomastodon primitivus Osborn 1936
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus simplicidens Cope 1892
recombined as Plesippus simplicidens
Mammalia - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Borophagus diversidens Cope 1892
    = Borophagus hilli Johnston 1939
Wang et al. 1999
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Sierra
Coordinates: 33.1° North, 107.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.2° North, 106.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Palomas
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:UNM locs. 300 - 317
Metadata
Database number:19974
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2304. S. G. Lucas and W. Oakes. 1986. in New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 37th Field Conf 249-255 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
3558 X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]