Standing Rock Quarry: Harrisonian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Cephalogale sp. Jourdan 1862
said to be new by Hunt 1998a
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Promartes cf. lepidus (Matthew 1907)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Daphoenodon sp. Peterson 1909
said to be new
    = Daphoenodon (Borocyon) neomexicanus n. sp. Hunt 2009
Hunt 2009
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Nothocyon aff. minor (Matthew 1907)
    = Cynarctoides acridens Barbour and Cook 1914
Wang et al. 1999
Mammalia - Camelidae
Stenomylus cf. gracilis Peterson 1907
Tedford 1981
"Stenomylus (Stenomylus) sp."
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Archaeolagus cf. macrocephalus (Matthew 1907)
18 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Entoptychidae
Ziamys tedfordi n. sp. Gawne 1975
2 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Proheteromys cejanus n. sp. Gawne 1975
3 specimens
Proheteromys aff. floridanus Wood 1932
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Sandoval
Coordinates: 35.7° North, 107.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.6° North, 102.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4-5
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Harrisonian
Age range of interval:23.10000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Zia Sand Member:basal Piedra Parada
Local section:RdZia Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:29 specimens
Taxonomic list comments:originally described by Galusha 1966
NISP 29+
Metadata
Database number:17844
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 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:

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]
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]
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]