Tonuco Mountain: Blancan, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Platygonus cf. bicalcaratus Cope 1893
nomen dubium belonging to Platygonus
DUPLICATE REF 2618 or 2619
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
DUPLICATE REF 2618 or 2619
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880
small DUPLICATE REF 2618 or 2619
Hemiauchenia blancoensis (Meade 1945)
    = Hemiauchenia macrocephala Cope 1893
Alroy 2002
DUPLICATE REF 2618 or 2619
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Nannippus cf. peninsulatus (Cope 1885)
DUPLICATE REF 2618 or 2619
Equus (Dolichohippus) simplicidens (Cope 1892)
recombined as Plesippus simplicidens
DUPLICATE REF 2618 or 2619
Equus scotti Gidley 1900
synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus
DUPLICATE REF 2618 or 2619
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Taxidea sp. Waterhouse 1839
DUPLICATE REF 2618 or 2619
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis lepophagus Johnston 1938
DUPLICATE REF 2618 or 2619
Borophagus sp. Cope 1892
DUPLICATE REF 2618 or 2619
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius sp. Osborn 1923
DUPLICATE REF 2618 or 2619
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Dona Ana
Coordinates: 32.0° North, 106.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.1° North, 106.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Camp Rice
Local section:Tonuc Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:possibly the same as Chamberino-Canutillo Sites, but these include a very different fauna
overlies Cedar Hill occurrence of Teleoceras
said to be not far "below the top of the Kaena subchron"
Metadata
Also known as:DUPLICATE REF 2618 or 2619
Database number:19981
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1998-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1998-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2618. G. S. Morgan, S. G. Lucas, and J. W. Estep. 1998. New Mexico Geology 20(2):54 [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]