Also known as Three Miles Above Ojo Alamo

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 88.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• within and not close to the bottom of a normal magnetic polarity zone in the Barrel Spring Arroyo = De-na-zin Wash section interpreted as C28n based on the position of the K-T boundary in the section: see Butler et al. 1977, Lucas et al. 1997

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

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 14856: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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