Cejita ( of the United States)

Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.5° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 106.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Ceja Member ("Santa Fe" Formation), Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 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 19971: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• "near where State Highway 6 ascends the Cejita"
a ridge called La Cejita is in Rio Arriba County
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Paenemarmota sp. Hibbard and Schultz 1948 squirrel