Black Mountain (Chamita Formation): Hemphillian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894
Tedford and Barghoorn 1993
    = Teleoceras hicksi Cook 1927
Stock 1921
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Carpocyon webbi Wang et al. 1999
Wang et al. 1999
"Black Mesa, San Ildefonso, rocks referred to the Chamita Formation... Rio Arriba County"
Epicyon sp. (Leidy 1858)
original and current combination Canis (Epicyon)
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Pliometanastes sp. Hirschfeld and Webb 1968
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
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chamita
Local section:Chama Local bed:4
Local order:bottom to top
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]