White Operation Quarry: Early/Lower Barstovian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Iguanidae
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Armandisaurus explorator n. gen., n. sp.
Norell and de Queiroz 1991
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Norell and de Queiroz 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
AMNH-FAM 8799 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
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Bassariscus cf. parvus
Hall 1927
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Baskin 2004 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Leptocyon leidyi
Tedford et al. 2009
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Tedford et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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"Merychippus" intermontanus
Merriam 1915
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recombined as Scaphohippus intermontanus | ||||||||||
probably includes material of Latorre et al. 1997 from "15.6 +/- 0.6 Ma" level | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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Peraceras profectum
(Matthew 1899)
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Miolabis fissidens
(Cope 1876)
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Nothotylopus sp.
Patton 1969
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Meryceros crucensis
Frick 1937
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= Merycodus crucensis
Frick 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
may include "Meryceros major" and "Meryceros joraki" of Frick 1937, both from "White Operation" | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Santa Fe |
Coordinates: | 35.5° North, 106.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.1° North, 103.1° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Barstovian | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.97000 - 13.60000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Tesuque | Member: | Skull Ridge |
Local section: | Espan | Local bed: | 2 |
Local order: | bottom to top |
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: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:"just below" No. 4 white ash, which was dated at 15.45 +/- 0.06 Ma (SCLF Ar-Ar on sanidine) by McIntosh and Quade 1995 list appears to be complete or nearly so |
Metadata
Database number: | 19611 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, G. Lloyd, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot, G. Lloyd |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2012-03-25 05:23:29 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1014. | S. F. Barghoorn and R. H. Tedford. 1993. New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin 2 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
40876 | J. A. Baskin. 2004. Bassariscus and Probassariscus (Mammalia, Carnivora, Procyonidae) from the early Barstovian (Middle Miocene). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3):709-720 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
66931 | M. A. Norell and K. de Queiroz. 1991. The earliest iguanine lizard (Reptilia: Squamata) and its bearing on iguanine phylogeny. American Museum Novitates 2997:1-16 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd] | |
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] |