East Flank Torreon Wash (Upper): Torrejonian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Psittacotherium multifragum Cope 1882
Conoryctes comma Cope 1881
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Promioclaenus lemuroides (Matthew 1897)
Promioclaenus acolytus (Cope 1882)
Mioclaenus turgidus Cope 1881
Protoselene opisthacus (Cope 1882)
Mammalia - Pantolestidae
Pentacodon occultus Matthew 1937
Mammalia
Prodiacodon puercensis (Matthew 1918)
original and current combination Diacodon puercensis
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Protictis vanvaleni n. sp. MacIntyre 1966
    = Intyrictis vanvaleni MacIntyre 1966
Alroy 2002
see MacIntyre 1966
Protictis haydenianus (Cope 1882)
Mammalia - Periptychidae
Periptychus carinidens Cope 1881
Anisonchus sectorius (Cope 1881)
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Chriacus pelvidens (Cope 1881)
Mimotricentes subtrigonus (Cope 1881)
recombined as Tricentes subtrigonus
Chriacus baldwini (Cope 1882)
Arctocyon ferox (Cope 1883)
Colpoclaenus procyonoides (Matthew 1937)
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Tetraclaenodon puercensis (Cope 1881)
Mammalia - Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Dissacus navajovius (Cope 1881)
Mammalia - Primates - Palaechthonidae
Torrejonia wilsoni n. gen., n. sp. Gazin 1968
Gazin 1968
from "Upper fossiliferous zone of... East branch of the Arroyo Torrejon"
    = Plesiolestes wilsoni Gazin 1968
Williamson and Lucas 1993
original and current combination Torrejonia wilsoni
Mammalia - Mixodectidae
Mixodectes pungens Cope 1883
Mixodectes malaris (Cope 1884)
Mammalia - Leptictidae
Acmeodon secans Matthew and Granger 1921
Mammalia - Pantolambdidae
Pantolambda bathmodon Cope 1882
may include specimen from NMMNH L-2701 in the "Mixodectes pungens Zone of the... Ojo Encino Member" (geographic location not given) of Williamson and Sealey 2000
Pantolambda cavirictum Cope 1883
Mammalia
? Peradectes sp. Matthew and Granger 1921
"B"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Sandoval
Coordinates: 35.7° North, 107.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.1° North, 87.2° 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:ETorr Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:identical to list 29 of Williamson 1996
excludes multis
Metadata
Also known as:Sinclair and Granger Loc. 10 (in part)
Database number:14833
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:40
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 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]
1620 C. L. Gazin. 1968. A new primate from the Torrejon middle Paleocene of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 81:629-634 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]