Kutz Canyon (UALP 7899): Torrejonian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Periptychidae
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Periptychus carinidens
Cope 1881
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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 | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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: | 3 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: shown as near the base of a reversed zone just above UALP 7897 by Tomida 1981, but near the middle of a normal magnetic polarity zone in the Kutz Canyon section interpreted as C28n 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 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 14863 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-11-16 15:34:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 3434 | Y. Tomida. 1981. "Dragonian" fossils from the San Juan Basin and status of the "Dragonian" Land Mammal "age". In S. G. Lucas, J. K. Rigby Jr., B. S. Kues (eds.), Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology 222-241 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |