PBDB Collection

Escavada Wash (Upper) (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as NMMNH 312, 2708; Sinclair and Granger Loc. 14 (in part)

Where: Sandoval County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 107.6° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 87.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ojo Encino Member (Nacimiento Formation), Torrejonian (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)

• "late Torrejonian... Mixodectes pungens interval zone" (Rose and Lucas 2000)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Froehlich, M. London in 1979; reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,

• "the [palaeanodont] bones were collected from the surface... and from screen-washed sediment"

Primary reference: T. E. Williamson and S. G. Lucas. 1993. Paleocene vertebrate paleontology of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin 2:105-136 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 14835: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• identical to list 22 of Williamson 1996

•excludes multis

•"Acmeodon secans" Matthew and Granger 1921, from the Pantolambda Zone, may or may not be at this level; record not discussed by Williamson and Lucas 1993

•"Caenolambda sp." may be present based on one very poor specimen from "the upper Torrejonian formation of the Escavada Wash": Simons 1960

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Mammalia
Theriamorpha - Conoryctidae	Conoryctes comma Conoryctes comma Cope 1881 taeniodont probably includes conoryctid "A" of Schoch 1986
Theriamorpha - Stylinodontidae	Psittacotherium multifragum Psittacotherium multifragum Cope 1882 taeniodont
Cimolesta - Pantolambdidae	Pantolambda bathmodon, Pantolambda cavirictum Pantolambda bathmodon Cope 1882 pantodont Pantolambda cavirictum Cope 1883 pantodont
Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae	Mioclaenus turgidus, Protoselene opisthacus, Promioclaenus acolytus, Promioclaenus lemuroides Mioclaenus turgidus Cope 1881 condylarth Protoselene opisthacus Cope 1882 condylarth Promioclaenus acolytus Cope 1882 condylarth Promioclaenus lemuroides Matthew 1897 condylarth
Acreodi - Mesonychidae	Dissacus navajovius Dissacus navajovius Cope 1881 condylarth
Theriamorpha - Periptychidae	Periptychus carinidens, Anisonchus sectorius Periptychus carinidens Cope 1881 condylarth Anisonchus sectorius Cope 1881 condylarth
Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae	Tetraclaenodon puercensis Tetraclaenodon puercensis Cope 1881 condylarth
Procreodi - Arctocyonidae	Colpoclaenus procyonoides, Arctocyon ferox, "Mimotricentes subtrigonus" = Tricentes subtrigonus Colpoclaenus procyonoides Matthew 1937 condylarth Arctocyon ferox Cope 1883 condylarth "Mimotricentes subtrigonus" = Tricentes subtrigonus Cope 1881 condylarth
Theriamorpha - Viverravidae	Protictis haydenianus Protictis haydenianus Cope 1882 placental
Theriamorpha - Escavadodontidae	Escavadodon zygus n. sp. Escavadodon zygus n. sp. Rose and Lucas 2000 placental NMMNH 2708; also at NMMNH 312; "Leptictidae indet. C"
Theriamorpha - Mixodectidae	Mixodectes pungens Mixodectes pungens Cope 1883 placental