East Cuyamungue (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as East Cuyamunque

Where: Santa Fe County, New Mexico (35.5° N, 106.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 102.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Nambe Member (Tesuque Formation), Late/Upper Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Evolution of the aeluroid Carnivora: diversity of the earliest aeluroids from Eurasia (Quercy, Hsanda-Gol) and the origin of felids. American Museum Novitates 3252:1-65 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 19339: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• said to possibly be from the Nambe Member of the Tesuque Formation by Hunt 1998c
possibly relevant "Cuyamungue" records: Moschidae indet. - "Longirostomeryx blicki" Frick 1937: postcrania Submeryceros ("Meryceros") minor Frick 1937: dentition Submeryceros ("Meryceros") minimus Frick 1937: type; dentition
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat
"probably the same" as Echo Quarry species
 Carnivora - Canidae
Microtomarctus conferta6 Matthew 1918 bone-crushing dog
"Nambe Member... East Cuymunque, Nambe Pueblo Grant"
Leptocyon vafer5 Leidy 1858 canine
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras brachyrhinum4 Prothero 2005 rhinoceros
Peraceras profectum4 Matthew 1899 rhinoceros
Also "West Cuyamunque"
Peraceras superciliosum4 Cope 1880 rhinoceros
"West Cuyamunque"
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Rakomylus raki2 Frick 1937 camel
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
"Submeryceros minimus n. sp." = Merycodus minimus1
"Submeryceros minimus n. sp." = Merycodus minimus1 Frick 1937 pronghorn
"Cuyamungue"
 Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Notogaulus major n. sp.3 Korth 2013 rodent
"Cuyamunque locality"
Notogaulus minor3 Korth 2013 rodent
"West Cuyamunque"
Alphagaulus vetus3 Matthew 1924 rodent
"West Cuyamunque"