Alamo Wash: Puercan, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Promioclaenus wilsoni n. sp. Van Valen 1978
Van Valen 1978
"Taeniolabis facies... Ojo Alamo"
    = Valenia wilsoni Van Valen 1978
de Muizon and Cifelli 2000
Mammalia
Onychodectes tisonensis Cope 1888
Schoch 1986
AMNH specimens from "Alamo Wash"
Wortmania otariidens (Cope 1885)
Schoch 1986
AMNH specimens from "Alamo Wash"
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Taeniolabididae
Taeniolabis level
Simmons 1987
    = Taeniolabis taoensis Cope 1882
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Eucosmodontidae
Taeniolabis zone
    = Eucosmodon americanus Cope 1885
Alroy 2002
probably OK, see Sloan 1981
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:San Juan
Coordinates: 36.3° North, 108.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.2° North, 87.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Puercan
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 63.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nacimiento
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Metadata
Also known as:Ojo Alamo
Database number:14657
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:39
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3701. R. W. Wilson. 1956. The condylarth genus Ellipsodon. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History 9(5):105-116 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
7306 C. de Muizon and R. L. Cifelli. 2000. The "condylarths" (archaic Ungulata, Mammalia) from the early Palaeocene of Tiupampa (Bolivia): implications on the origin of the South American ungulates. Geodiversitas 22(1):47-150 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
3053 R. M. Schoch. 1986. Systematics, Functional Morphology and Macroevolution of the Extinct Mammalian Order Taeniodonta. Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 42:1-320 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
3122 N. B. Simmons. 1987. A Revision of Taeniolabis (Mammalia: Multituberculata), with a New Species from the Puercan of Eastern Montana. Journal of Paleontology 61(4):794-808 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3485 L. M. Van Valen. 1978. The beginning of the Age of Mammals. Evolutionary Theory 4:45-80 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]