Loma Colorado de Abajo: Blancan, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys (Nerterogeomys) sp. Rafinesque 1817
3 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Sandoval
Coordinates: 35.7° North, 107.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.8° North, 106.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
*Local age/stage:Blancan
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Blancan
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:4 specimens
Metadata
Database number:19983
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1999-10-13 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1999-10-13 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2616. G. S. Morgan and S. G. Lucas. 1999. New Mexico Geology 21(2):43 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]