Escavada Wash (Lower): Torrejonian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Psittacotherium multifragum Cope 1882
Mammalia - Periptychidae
Periptychus carinidens Cope 1881
Mammalia - Acreodi - Triisodontidae
Triisodon quivirensis Cope 1881
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Ellipsodon grangeri Wilson 1956
Reptilia - Baenidae
Baena escavada n. sp. Hay 1908
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:

14442ETE O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]