White Operation Quarry: Early/Lower Barstovian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Iguanidae
Armandisaurus explorator n. gen., n. sp. Norell and de Queiroz 1991
Norell and de Queiroz 1991 1 specimen
AMNH-FAM 8799
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Bassariscus cf. parvus Hall 1927
Baskin 2004
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Leptocyon leidyi Tedford et al. 2009
Tedford et al. 2009
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Merychippus" intermontanus Merriam 1915
recombined as Scaphohippus intermontanus
probably includes material of Latorre et al. 1997 from "15.6 +/- 0.6 Ma" level
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894
Peraceras profectum (Matthew 1899)
Mammalia - Camelidae
Miolabis fissidens (Cope 1876)
Nothotylopus sp. Patton 1969
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Meryceros crucensis Frick 1937
    = Merycodus crucensis Frick 1937
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]