Elephant Butte Reservoir: Blancan, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut raki n. sp. (Frick 1933)
Lucas and Morgan 1999
original and current combination Mastodon raki
of Frick 1933 from vicinity of Rock Canyon, west side of Elephant Butte Lake, 7 mi. N of Truth or Consequences; this is south of Mitchell Point; includes "Mammutidae indet." of Tedford
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus simplicidens Cope 1892
recombined as Plesippus simplicidens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Camelidae
Gigantocamelus sp. Barbour and Schultz 1939
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:4.90000 - 1.80000 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:basalt at Mitchell Point "western side of the reservoir" dated at 2.9 Ma, method and error not indicated, but said to be KA on basalt by Lucas and Morgan 1999
formation assignment based on Lucas and Morgan 1999
Metadata
Database number:19975
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
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:

2302 S. G. Lucas and G. S. Morgan. 1999. The oldest Mammut (Mammalia: Proboscidea) from New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 21(1):10-12 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]