Abiquiu Formation Type Section (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.5° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 104.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: 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]more details

PaleoDB collection 19130: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

• about the same level as El Rito (see)
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Merychyus cf. crabilli" = Merychyus calaminthus
"Merychyus cf. crabilli" = Merychyus calaminthus Jahns 1940 oreodont