East Cuyamungue: Late/Upper Hemingfordian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Notogaulus minor Korth 2013
Korth 2013
"West Cuyamunque"
Notogaulus major n. sp. Korth 2013
Korth 2013
"Cuyamunque locality"
Alphagaulus vetus (Matthew 1924)
Korth 2013
"West Cuyamunque"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821
"probably the same" as Echo Quarry species
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Leptocyon vafer (Leidy 1858)
Tedford et al. 2009
Microtomarctus conferta (Matthew 1918)
Wang et al. 1999
"Nambe Member... East Cuymunque, Nambe Pueblo Grant"
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Submeryceros minimus n. sp. (Frick 1937)
Frick 1937
recombined as Merycodus minimus
"Cuyamungue"
Mammalia - Camelidae
Rakomylus raki Frick 1937
Frick and Taylor 1968
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras brachyrhinum Prothero 2005
Prothero 2005
Peraceras profectum (Matthew 1899)
Prothero 2005
Also "West Cuyamunque"
Peraceras superciliosum (Cope 1880)
Prothero 2005
original and current combination Peraceras superciliosus
"West Cuyamunque"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Santa Fe
Coordinates: 35.5° North, 106.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.3° North, 102.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Late/Upper Hemingfordian
Age range of interval:18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:lower Santa Fe Formation:Tesuque Member:Nambe
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:said to possibly be from the Nambe Member of the Tesuque Formation by Hunt 1998c
possibly relevant "Cuyamungue" records: Moschidae indet. - "Longirostomeryx blicki" Frick 1937: postcrania Submeryceros ("Meryceros") minor Frick 1937: dentition Submeryceros ("Meryceros") minimus Frick 1937: type; dentition
Metadata
Also known as:East Cuyamunque
Database number:19339
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1999-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2023-07-29 06:45:41
Access level:the public Released:1999-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1978. R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Evolution of the aeluroid Carnivora: diversity of the earliest aeluroids from Eurasia (Quercy, Hsanda-Gol) and the origin of felids. American Museum Novitates 3252:1-65 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6222 C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1549 C. Frick and B. E. Taylor. 1968. A Generic Review of the Stenomyline Camels. American Museum Novitates 2353:1-51 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/B. Beatty]
57239 W. W. Korth. 2013. Mylagaulid Rodents (Mammalia: Rodentia: Mylagaulidae) from the Middle Miocene (Barstovian) of New Mexico. Annals of Carnegie Museum 81(4):233-245 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
2569 J. C. Merriam. 1916. Mammalian Remains From a Late Tertiary Formation at Ironside, Oregon. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 10(9):129-135 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
52058 R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]
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]