Coprolite Point: Torrejonian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
? Peradectes sp. Matthew and Granger 1921
"D"
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Protoselene opisthacus (Cope 1882)
UALP 7650, 7653/7785/7878
Mammalia - Periptychidae
Periptychus carinidens Cope 1881
Taylor 1981
UALP 7653/7785/7878; not clear why this is omitted by Williamson and Lucas 1993 and Williamson 1996
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Tetraclaenodon puercensis (Cope 1881)
UALP 7653/7785/7878
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Chriacus pelvidens (Cope 1881)
Chriacus baldwini (Cope 1882)
Arctocyon ferox (Cope 1883)
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Protictis vanvaleni MacIntyre 1966
    = Intyrictis ? vanvaleni MacIntyre 1966
Alroy 2002
UALP 7653/7785/7878: may include "Protictis sp." of Taylor 1981 from UALP 7653/7785/7878
Mammalia - Acreodi - Oxyclaenidae
Deltatherium fundaminis Cope 1881
UALP 7650
Mammalia - Acreodi - Triisodontidae
Goniacodon levisanus (Cope 1883)
Mammalia - Mixodectidae
Mixodectes malaris (Cope 1884)
UALP 7650
Mammalia - Pantolambdidae
Pantolambda cavirictum Cope 1883
Mammalia
Psittacotherium multifragum Cope 1882
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:San Juan
Coordinates: 36.3° North, 108.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.9° North, 88.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Torrejonian
Age range of interval:63.80000 - 60.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nacimiento
Local section:KutzC Local bed:13
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: high in a reversed magnetic polarity zone in the Kutz Canyon section interpreted as C27r based on the position of the K-T boundary in the correlative Barrel Spring Arroyo = De-na-zin Wash section: see Butler et al. 1977, Lucas et al. 1997
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:identical to list 5 of Williamson 1996
UALP provenances based on Taylor 1981
Metadata
Also known as:NMMNH 1482, 2658; UALP 73124, 7650, 7651, 7653, 7785, 7878
Database number:14825
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-11-16 11:39:19
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3649. T. E. Williamson and S. G. Lucas. 1993. Paleocene vertebrate paleontology of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin 2:105-136 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
2319 S. G. Lucas, T. E. Williamson, and M. D. Middleton. 1997. Catopsalis (Mammalia: Multituberculata) from the Paleocene of New Mexico and Utah: taxonomy and biochronological significance. Journal of Paleontology 71(3):484-492. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/K. Maguire]
3375 L. H. Taylor. 1981. The Kutz Canyon Local Fauna, Torrejonian (Middle Paleocene) of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico;. In S. G. Lucas, J. K. Rigby Jr., B. S. Kues (eds.), Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology 242-263 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]