Kiva Quarry (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Sandoval County, New Mexico (35.7° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 103.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Zia Sand 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. 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

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 19410: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.07.1994

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Taxonomic list

• "close to the Jemez River on the edge of the Zia Pueblo Grant"
not clear from text if there is a direct stratigraphic correlation with other Zia Sand sites
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equini indet.1
Equini indet.1 Quinn 1955 horse
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Merychyus sp.2
Merychyus sp.2 Leidy 1858 oreodont
"lower part of the 'Santa Fe Beds'... Kiva Quarry... just above channel on crest, South Skull Ridge... two miles southwest of Zia Pueblo, Sandoval County"
 Carnivora - Canidae
Microtomarctus conferta3, Paracynarctus kelloggi3
Microtomarctus conferta3 Matthew 1918 bone-crushing dog
probably includes "Tomarctus cf. optatus"
Paracynarctus kelloggi3 Merriam 1911 bone-crushing dog
1Alroy 2002; 2Schultz and Falkenbach 1968; 3Wang et al. 1999