Cerrilos (C1): Wasatchian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops sp. Leidy 1872
    = Microsyopidae indet. Osborn and Wortman 1892
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Paramyidae
Paramyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841
    = Equidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus powellianus Cope 1884
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Santa Fe
Coordinates: 35.5° North, 106.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.1° North, 91.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval: Wasatchian
Age range of interval: 54.9 - 50.5 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Galisteo Member:lower
Local section:Galis Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:15459
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2006-09-13 00:27:33
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2283. S. G. Lucas. 1982. Vertebrate paleontology, stratigraphy, and biostratigraphy of Eocene Galisteo Formation, north-central New Mexico. New Mex Bur Mines & Mineral Resources, Circular 186:1-34 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]