Blick Quarry: Early/Lower Hemingfordian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Menoceras barbouri
(Wood 1964)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Stenomylus sp.
Peterson 1907
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| at Blick Q.: Frick and Taylor 1968 (6 measurements) | ||||||||||
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= Stenomylus (Stenomylus) taylori n. sp.
Cassiliano 2008
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Cassiliano 2008 | |||||||||
| recombined as Stenomylus taylori | ||||||||||
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Blickomylus galushai
Frick and Taylor 1968
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79 specimens | |||||||||
| see Frick and Taylor 1968: | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Cynarctoides sp.
McGrew 1938
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10 specimens | |||||||||
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= Cynarctoides acridens
Barbour and Cook 1914
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
| said to be new | ||||||||||
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Tomarctus sp.
Cope 1873
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= Protomarctus optatus
Matthew 1924
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
| (placed by Wang et al. at this quarry) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Daphoenodon (Borocyon) robustum
(Peterson 1910)
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Hunt 2009 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Hemicyon sp.
Lartet 1851
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Ursidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Tedford and Frailey 1976 | |||||||||
| "Blick Fauna"; (possibly Cynarctoides Quarry instead); "Hemicyoninae indet." | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Pleurolicus cf. sulcifrons
Cope 1878
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Heteromyinae indet.
Gray 1868
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| "Proheteromys or Mookomys": | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
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Oreolagus cf. nebrascensis
McGrew 1941
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Archaeolagus sp.
Dice 1917
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Sandoval |
| Coordinates: | 35.7° North, 107.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.5° North, 103.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Hemingfordian |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Hemingfordian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Zia Sand | Member: | lower Chamisa Mesa | ||
| Local section: | RdZia | Local bed: | 2 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be early Hemingfordian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 94 specimens |
| Taxonomic list comments:originally could not be separated from Cynarctoides Quarry list (see) but later literature makes this possible generically identifiable NISP 94 also additional records of Blickomylus galushai, Frick and Taylor 1968: Canyada Moquino, Chamisa Mesa Mbr.; Arroyo del Camello (Blick Hill), Zia Sand level unknown | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 19188 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1587. | C. E. Gawne. 1975. Rodents from the Zia Sand Miocene of New Mexico. American Museum Novitates 2586 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 31480 | M. Cassiliano. 2008. Stenomylus (Stenomylus) taylori, s.p. nov. (Stenomylinae, Camelidae) from the early Miocene (Hemingfordian) Blick Quarry in New Mexico. Rocky Mountain Geology 43(2):143-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 54871 | R. M. Hunt, Jr. 2009. Long-Legged Pursuit Carnivorans (Amphicyonidae, Daphoeninae) From the Early Miocene of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 318:1-95 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 51640 | E. B. Lander and E. H. Lindsay. 2011. Merychyus calaminthus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Oreodontidae) of probable early late Arikareean (late Oligocene to late early Miocene) age from the lower part of the Chalk Canyon Formation, Maricopa and Yavapai counties, central Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(1):215-226 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/M. Uhen] | |
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 3381 | R. H. Tedford and D. Frailey. 1976. Review of Some Carnivora (Mammalia) From the Thomas Farm Local Fauna (Hemingfordian: Gilchrist County, Florida). American Museum Novitates 2610:1-9 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 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] |