Straight Cliff Prospect (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Sandoval County, New Mexico (35.7° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 104.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: top of the Pilares Member (Zia Sand Formation), Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

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 19562: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• the Pilares Mbr. is a lateral equivalent of the Chamisa Mesa Mbr.
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Menoceras barbouri Wood 1964 rhinoceros