Elephant Butte Reservoir: Blancan, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut raki n. sp.
(Frick 1933)
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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
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Equus simplicidens
Cope 1892
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recombined as Plesippus simplicidens | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus sp.
Brisson 1762
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Gigantocamelus sp.
Barbour and Schultz 1939
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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] |