PBDB Collection

Largo: Wasatchian, New Mexico

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Paramys simpsoni Korth 1984	Korth 1984
	= informal Korth paramyine simpsoni	Alroy 2002
	Locality 150
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae

	Hyopsodus minor Loomis 1905	Redline 1997
	CM 1025

	Hyopsodus cf. mentalis (Cope 1875)	Redline 1997
	CM 1025, 1026, 1027, 1030, 1031, 1033

	Hyopsodus lysitensis Gingerich 1974	Redline 1997
	CM 1025, 1026, 1027, 1031, 1031, 1033 ,"H. miticulus" at MQ
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae

	Meniscotherium chamense Cope 1874
	at MQ DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312

	Meniscotherium tapiacitum (Cope 1882)
	DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312

	Phenacodus brachypternus Cope 1882
	= Copecion brachypternus Cope 1882	Alroy 2002
	figured by Granger 1915 and said to be from "the upper beds... near Ojo San Jose" DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
Mammalia - Perissodactyla

	Hyracotherium tapirinum (Cope 1875)
	= Systemodon tapirinus Cope 1875	Alroy 2002
	seems OK, see Gingerich 1991b DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Hyracotherium vasacciense (Cope 1872)
	possibly includes H. sp. material from MQ DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
	= Eohippus angustidens Cope 1875	Froehlich 2002

	Xenicohippus sp. Bown and Kihm 1981
	DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
	= Xenicohippus osborni Bown and Kihm 1981	Froehlich 2002
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae

	Diacodexis chacensis (Cope 1875)
	= Simpsonodus chacensis Cope 1875	Alroy 2002
	MQ DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312

	Bunophorus grangeri (Sinclair 1914)
	probably the AMNH specimen referred by Granger 1914 to "Wasatchia dorseyana" from 10 mi. W of Laguna Colorado, Rio Arriba Co. DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312

	Diacodexis cf. metsiacus (Cope 1882)	Krishtalka and Stucky 1986
	CM 1025
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae

	Oxyaena lupina Cope 1874	Denison 1938
	may include O. sp. material from MQ

	Oxyaena simpsoni n. sp. Van Valen 1966
	from 150 Quarry: see Van Valen 1966 DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312

	Ambloctonus hyaenoides n. sp. Matthew and Granger 1915	Denison 1938
	= Ambloctonus sinosus Cope 1875	Alroy 2002
	DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae

	Sinopa sp. Leidy 1871
	= Hyaenodontidae indet. Leidy 1869	Alroy 2002
	MQ DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
Mammalia - Viverravidae

	Didymictis protenus (Cope 1874)
	= Didymictis sp. Cope 1875	Alroy 2002
	DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
Mammalia

	Vulpavus australis Matthew and Granger 1915
	DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae

	Thisbemys nini n. sp. Wood 1962
	= Paramys nini Wood 1962	Alroy 2002
	"probably from or near Baldwin's Meniscotherium locality since it has the same number" (as what?): Wood 1962 DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312

	Paramys copei Loomis 1907
	also listed by Wood 1962 and Korth 1984; P. sp. at MQ DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae

	Knightomys depressus (Loomis 1907)	Korth 1984
	this may include "Franimys buccatus" of Black and Sutton 1984
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae

	Microsyops latidens (Cope 1882)
	DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312 (6 measurements)

	Microsyops angustidens (Matthew 1915)
	DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312 (2 measurements)
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

	Pelycodus frugivorus Cope 1875
	= Cantius frugivorus Cope 1875	Alroy 2002
	may include C. sp. material from MQ DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312

	Cantius angulatus (Cope 1875)	Beard 1988
	neotype, AMNH specimen from Gavilan Arroyo

	Copelemur tutus (Cope 1877)
	DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae

	Coryphodon armatus (Cope 1872)
	probably includes UM specimen of Uhen and Gingerich 1995 from "Laguna Colorado"; includes "C. molestus" of Lucas and Williamson 1992a; C. sp. at MQ DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
Mammalia - Apatemyidae

	Apatemys bellulus Marsh 1872	Bown and Schankler 1982
Mammalia - Esthonychidae

	Esthonyx bisulcatus Cope 1874
	DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
Mammalia

	Ectoganus gliriformis Cope 1874
	DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	New Mexico	County:	Rio Arriba
Coordinates:	36.5° North, 107.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	41.2° North, 91.7° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	local area

Time

Period:	Paleogene	Epoch:	Eocene
Stage:	Ypresian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 2
*Period:	Tertiary
Key time interval:	Wasatchian
Age range of interval:	54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	San Jose	Member:	Tapicitos
Stratigraphic resolution:	member

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Meniscotherium Quarry records based on Williamson and Lucas 1992a are marked with MQ based on Haskin 1980, falls mostly or entirely within Simpson Section 1, which entirely overlies all of the main Almagre sections overlies Almagre local fauna (see)

Metadata

Also known as:	CM 1025, 1026, 1027, 1030, 1031, 1033; Gavilan Arroyo; Meniscotherium Quarry (AMNH Quarry 150, NMMNH Loc. 201) DUPLICATE REF 2311 or 2312
Database number:	15663
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:	T. Cleary	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-02-18 00:00:00	Last modified:	2016-07-29 11:22:16
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

2311.

S. G. Lucas, R. M. Schoch, and E. Manning. 1981. The Systematics of Forstercooperia, a Middle to Late Eocene Hyracodontid (Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotoidea) from Asia and Western North America. Journal of Paleontology 55(4):826-841 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1036		K. C. Beard. 1988. New notharctine primate fossils from the early Eocene of New Mexico and southern Wyoming and the phylogeny of Notharctinae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 75(4):439-469 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1125		T. M. Bown and D. Schankler. 1982. A review of the Proteutheria and Insectivora of the Willwood Formation (Lower Eocene), Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1523:1-79 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
1361	5% 37020	R. H. Denison. 1938. The broad-skulled Pseudocreodi. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 37:163-256 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/W. Clyde]
53105		D. J. Froehlich. 2002. Quo vadis Eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134:141-256 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
2105		W. W. Korth. 1984. Earliest Tertiary evolution and radiation of rodents in North America. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 24:1-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
2184		L. Krishtalka and R. K. Stucky. 1986. Early Eocene artiodactyls from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, and the Piceance Basin, Colorado. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming Special Paper 3:183-196 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
2312		S. G. Lucas, R. M. Schoch, E. Manning and C. Tsentas. 1981. The Eocene biostratigraphy of New Mexico. Geological Society America Bulletin 92:951-967 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/T. Cleary]
6223		A. D. Redline. 1997. Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 13. Systematics and phylogenetic pattern of early Eocene Hyopsodus (Mammalia: Condylarthra). Annals of Carnegie Museum 66(1):1-81 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]