Kutz Canyon (UALP 7655) (Paleocene of the United States)

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

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• not far below the middle of a reversed magnetic polarity zone in the Kutz Canyon section interpreted as C27r based on the position of the K-T boundary in the correlative Barrel Spring Arroyo = De-na-zin Wash section: see Butler et al. 1977, Lucas et al. 1997

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: L. H. Taylor. 1981. The Kutz Canyon Local Fauna, Torrejonian (Middle Paleocene) of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico;. In S. G. Lucas, J. K. Rigby Jr., B. S. Kues (eds.), Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology 242-263 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 14867: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Mioclaenus sp. Cope 1881 condylarth
Ellipsodon grangeri Wilson 1956 condylarth
Promioclaenus acolytus Cope 1882 condylarth
 Acreodi - Oxyclaenidae
Coriphagus encinensis Matthew and Granger 1921 placental
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Tetraclaenodon puercensis Cope 1881 condylarth
 Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
"Mimotricentes subtrigonus" = Tricentes subtrigonus
"Mimotricentes subtrigonus" = Tricentes subtrigonus Cope 1881 condylarth
 Theriamorpha - Periptychidae
Periptychus carinidens Cope 1881 condylarth