Escavada Wash (Lower): Torrejonian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
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Psittacotherium multifragum
Cope 1882
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Mammalia
- Periptychidae
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Periptychus carinidens
Cope 1881
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Mammalia
- Acreodi
- Triisodontidae
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Triisodon quivirensis
Cope 1881
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Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Ellipsodon grangeri
Wilson 1956
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Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Baena escavada n. sp.
Hay 1908
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Hay 1908 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
AMNH 1203 partial shell; obtained by Dr. J. L. Wortman and Mr. Walter Granger in 1896, in the Torrejon deposits, at the head of Escavada Creek | ||||||||||
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 |
Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Torrejonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 63.30000 - 61.70000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Nacimiento | ||
Local section: | Escav | Local bed: | 1 |
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 21 of Williamson 1996 although the wash is mostly in San Juan County, fossils are from its far end in Sandoval County; see map and sections of Williamson 1996 excludes multis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Sinclair and Granger Loc. 14 (in part) | ||
Database number: | 14834 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, R. Benson | Enterer: | J. Alroy, R. Benson | 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:
14442 | ETE | O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |