Rio del Oso-Abiquiu Sites: Barstovian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Aelurodon ferox
Leidy 1858
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
| "near the head of" and "south fork of" Three Sands Hills Wash; "South Ojo Caliente"; "Chama el Rito area"; "middle Ojo Caliente" | ||||||||||
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Aelurodon stirtoni
(Wang et al. 1999)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
| "Aelurodon Wash, Rio del Oso, Abiquiu" | ||||||||||
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Tomarctus confertus
(Matthew 1918)
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| recombined as Microtomarctus conferta | ||||||||||
| at "South fork of Three Sands Hills Wash" according to Wang et al. 1999 | ||||||||||
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Paratomarctus temerarius
(Leidy 1858)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
| Aelurodon Wash; "Three-Sand Hills Wash, Rio del Oso locality, Green Sand Stratum" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Brachycrus vaughani
Schultz and Falkenbach 1940
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| synonym of Brachycrus laticeps | ||||||||||
| includes type of "Brachycrus vaughani rioosoensis": see Schultz and Falkenbach 1968; assignment to this species based on Lander 1998 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras brachyrhinum
Prothero 2005
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Rio Arriba |
| Coordinates: | 36.5° North, 107.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.1° North, 103.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Barstovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 15.5 ± 0.4 Ma (unknown) | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tesuque | Member: | lower Chama-El Rito | ||
| Local section: | Chama | Local bed: | 2 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: about the same level as basalt dated at 15.3 +/- 0.4 Ma (method?) in the Los Pinos Tongue | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 19520 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | B. Allen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2023-07-29 06:47:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3380. | R. H. Tedford and S. F. Barghoorn. 1993. Road Log Neogene geology of the Española Basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin 2:169-178 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 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] |