Kutz Canyon (Nine UALP Locs): Torrejonian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Eucosmodontidae
Eucosmodon sp. Matthew and Granger 1921
Mammalia - Leptictidae
Acmeodon secans Matthew and Granger 1921
Mammalia
Conoryctes comma Cope 1881
    = Conoryctella pattersoni Schoch and Lucas 1981
Schoch and Lucas 1981
from UALP 7662
Psittacotherium multifragum Cope 1882
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodontidae indet. Trouessart 1879
said to be a new genus: said by Williamson and Lucas 1993 to be from both UALP 7640 and UALP 7643
Mioclaenus sp. Cope 1881
Protoselene opisthacus (Cope 1882)
Promioclaenus lemuroides (Matthew 1897)
Promioclaenus acolytus (Cope 1882)
Mammalia - Acreodi - Oxyclaenidae
Coriphagus encinensis (Matthew and Granger 1921)
Deltatherium fundaminis Cope 1881
Mammalia - Acreodi - Triisodontidae
Triisodon sp. Cope 1881
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Protictis sp. (Matthew)
said to be new: not clear if there are two or three forms
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Tetraclaenodon puercensis (Cope 1881)
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Deuterogonodon noletil Van Valen 1978
Chriacus pelvidens (Cope 1881)
Mimotricentes subtrigonus (Cope 1881)
recombined as Tricentes subtrigonus
Chriacus baldwini (Cope 1882)
Microclaenodon assurgens (Cope 1884)
Mammalia - Periptychidae
Periptychus carinidens Cope 1881
Anisonchus sectorius (Cope 1881)
Mammalia - Mixodectidae
Mixodectes malaris (Cope 1884)
Mammalia - Primates - Palaechthonidae
Torrejonia cf. wilsoni Gazin 1968
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
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:7
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: not far below the middle of 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
Collection size:225 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:reversed polarity, as is most of section, but correlation to chron 27R is based strictly on biochronology
Metadata
Also known as:UALP 75106 (Taylor Mound), 75140, 7640 (Larry's Beaucoup), 7641, 7643, 7644, 7660, 7662, 7778
Database number:14868
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-11-16 15:10:23
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 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:

3058 R. M. Schoch and S. G. Lucas. 1981. A new species of Conoryctella (Mammalia: Taeniodonta) from the Paleocene of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, and a revision of the genus. Postilla 185:1-23 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]