Jal Horse Quarry (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Lea County, New Mexico (32.1° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 103.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified claystone and unlithified siltstone

• "clay and silt"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Ward, C. B. Schultz in 1940; reposited in the UNSM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• University of Nebraska collection

•site was discovered by "Mr. Shafter Ward of the New Mexico Highway Department of Carlsbad"

•fossils were "eroding out" of the deposit and some "test pits" were dug

Primary reference: C. B. Schultz. 1943. Some artifact sites of early man in the Great Plains and adjacent areas. American Antiquity 8(3):242-249 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 93246: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
"several skeletons"
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison antiquus Leidy 1852 bison
"B. antiquus taylori"
 Carnivora - Felidae
? Smilodon sp. Lund 1841 saber-toothed cat
  - Mylodontidae
Mylodontidae indet. Ameghino 1889 edentate
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Parelephas columbi" = Mammuthus columbi
"Parelephas columbi" = Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum
"Mastodon americanus" = Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon