White Operation Quarry (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Santa Fe County, New Mexico (35.5° N, 106.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 103.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Skull Ridge Member (Tesuque Formation), Early/Lower Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. F. Barghoorn and R. H. Tedford. 1993. New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin 2 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 19611: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994, edited by Jonathan Marcot and Graeme Lloyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "just below" No. 4 white ash, which was dated at 15.45 +/- 0.06 Ma (SCLF Ar-Ar on sanidine) by McIntosh and Quade 1995
list appears to be complete or nearly so
list appears to be complete or nearly so
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Miolabis fissidens Cope 1876 camel
Nothotylopus sp. Patton 1969 camel | |
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Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
Peraceras profectum Matthew 1899 rhinoceros | |
""Merychippus" intermontanus" = Scaphohippus intermontanus
""Merychippus" intermontanus" = Scaphohippus intermontanus Merriam 1915 horse probably includes material of Latorre et al. 1997 from "15.6 +/- 0.6 Ma" level
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Armandisaurus explorator n. gen. n. sp.3
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