Truth or Consequences: Blancan, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Masticophis ? flagellum
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Reptilia
- Iguanidae
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Sceloporus undulatus
(Bosc 1802)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Kinosternon flavescens
(Agassiz 1857)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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? Terrapene ornata
Agassiz 1857
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Stegomastodon sp.
Pohlig 1912
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Prosigmodon sp.
Jacobs and Lindsay 1981
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Paraneotoma quadriplicatus
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= Neotoma quadriplicata
Hibbard 1941
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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cf. Oryzomys sp.
Baird 1857
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys minor
Gidley 1922
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= Nerterogeomys minor
Gidley 1922
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Hypolagus vetus
(Kellogg 1910)
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Notolagus lepusculus
(Hibbard 1939)
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| confirmed by White 1988, 1991 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus brachyodontus
Oelrich 1953
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= Odocoileus sp.
Rafinesque 1832
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Wheatley and Ruez 2003 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Dolichohippus sp.
Heller 1912
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= Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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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 | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Blancan |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:from a 1.5 m thick, normally magnetized roadcut section Tedford 1981 gives a Palomas basin list that disagrees with Repenning and May's, but seems to include additional sites such as Las Palomas Creek |
Metadata
| Also known as: | USG M-1481 | ||
| Database number: | 19982 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||