Black Mountain (Chamita Formation): Hemphillian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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Tedford and Barghoorn 1993 | |||||||||
= Teleoceras hicksi
Cook 1927
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Stock 1921 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Carpocyon webbi
Wang et al. 1999
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
"Black Mesa, San Ildefonso, rocks referred to the Chamita Formation... Rio Arriba County" | ||||||||||
Epicyon sp.
(Leidy 1858)
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original and current combination Canis (Epicyon) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Pliometanastes sp.
Hirschfeld and Webb 1968
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Rio Arriba |
Coordinates: | 36.5° North, 107.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.9° North, 105.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Neogene | ||
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
Key time interval: | Hemphillian | ||
Age range of interval: | 10.30000 - 4.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:list may be complete Black Mesa is another name for Round Mountain: Tedford and Barghoorn 1993, p. 164 possibly relevant: Merycodus ("Meryceros") crucensis Frick 1937: "east of Black Mesa" |
Metadata
Also known as: | Black Mesa | ||
Database number: | 19186 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1998-09-21 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-12-18 12:28:59 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1998-09-21 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
3378. | R. H. Tedford. 1981. Mammalian biochronology of the late Cenozoic basins of New Mexico. Geological Society America Bulletin 92 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
3244 | C. Stock. 1921. Note on an Hipparion Tooth From the Siestan Deposits of the Berkeley Hills, California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 13(3):19-21 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
3380 | R. H. Tedford and S. F. Barghoorn. 1993. Road Log Neogene geology of the EspaƱola Basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin 2:169-178 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
3558 | X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |