Arroyo de la Parida (Rhynchotherium Site) ( of the United States)
Where: Socorro County, New Mexico (34.0° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 106.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Palomas Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
• "derived from a >70-m-thick succession of sand and gravel" and "medial Blancan" (Sealey et al. 2001)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone and conglomerate
• "axial-river... facies" (Sealey et al. 2001)
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. G. Lucas and G. S. Morgan. 1996. Texas Journal of Science 48(4) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 19969: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Lucas et al. 2000 imply that only one specimen is present
said by Lucas and Morgan to be in the Sierra Ladrones Fm., but by Lucas et al. 2000 to be in the Palomas Fm.
40 m higher stratigraphically than main Arroyo de La Parida locality: Lucas et al. 2000
said by Lucas and Morgan to be in the Sierra Ladrones Fm., but by Lucas et al. 2000 to be in the Palomas Fm.
40 m higher stratigraphically than main Arroyo de La Parida locality: Lucas et al. 2000
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Rhynchotherium falconeri Osborn 1923 gomphothere apparently includes "R. sp." of Tedford 1981 from "Arroyo de la Parida
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