Arroyo de la Parida: Blancan, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Hesperotestudo sp.
(Williams 1950)
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Sealey et al. 2001 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx cf. leptostomus
Cope 1893
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Lucas et al. 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Stegomastodon sp.
Pohlig 1912
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus cf. scotti
Gidley 1900
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synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus | ||||||||||
Equus cf. cumminsii
Cope 1893
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misspelling Equus (Asinus) cumminsi | ||||||||||
Equus simplicidens
Cope 1892
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recombined as Plesippus simplicidens | ||||||||||
present at NMMNH 3310, 1.6 km NW of Rhynchotherium site: Lucas and Morgan 1996 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelops sp.
Leidy 1854
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Lucas et al. 2000 | |||||||||
Hemiauchenia sp.
Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Lucas et al. 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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cf. Capromeryx sp.
Matthew 1902
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Socorro |
Coordinates: | 34.0° North, 107.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.1° North, 106.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
Age range of interval: | 4.90000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | conglomerate |
Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Geology comments: "axial-river... facies" (Sealey et al. 2001) |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:40 m lower stratigraphically than Rhynchotherium material: Lucas et al. 2000 said by Tedford to be in the Sierra Ladrones Fm., but by Lucas et al. to be in the Palomas Fm. see also Lucas and Morgan 1996 "Rhynchotherium sp." is from the Arroyo de la Parida Rhynchotherium Site: Lucas and Morgan 1996, Lucas et al. 2000 |
Metadata
Database number: | 19968 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-03-17 20:32:18 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 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:
745 | S. G. Lucas, A. B. Heckert, and A. P. Hunt. 2000. Probably turtle from the Upper Triassic of east-central New Mexico. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 2000(5):287-300 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen] | |
23538 | P. L. Sealey, G. S. Morgan, S. G. Lucas, S. D. Connell, D. W. Love and P. B. Jackson-Paul. 2001. The medial Blancan (late Pliocene) Arroyo de la Parida local fauna, Socorro County, New Mexico. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 33(5):56 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |