White Mesa: Uintan - Duchesnean, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Leptomeryx sp. Leidy 1853
    = Protoceratidae indet. Marsh 1891
Alroy 2002
replaces ID of Lucas et al. 1981
Mammalia - Agriochoeridae
Protoreodon pumilus (Marsh 1875)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Catron
Coordinates: 33.5° North, 108.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.1° North, 99.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Uintan - Duchesnean
Age range of interval:46.20000 - 37.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Baca
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:locality may be Uintan
based on outcrop map, there is a small chance that the material is actually from Socorro County
Metadata
Database number:16883
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-07-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1994-07-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2284. S. G. Lucas. 1983. The Baca Formation and the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 34th Field Conference, Socorro Region II 187-192 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]