Jal Horse Quarry: Late/Upper Pleistocene, New Mexico
collected by S. Ward, C. B. Schultz 1940
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Parelephas columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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| recombined as Mammuthus columbi | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mastodon americanus
(Kerr 1792)
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| recombined as Mammut americanum | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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| "several skeletons" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison antiquus
Leidy 1852
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| "B. antiquus taylori" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelops sp.
Leidy 1854
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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? Smilodon sp.
Lund 1841
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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? Mylodon sp.
Owen 1859
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= Mylodontidae indet.
Ameghino 1889
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Lutugin 1894 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Lea |
| Coordinates: | 32.1° North, 103.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.1° North, 103.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | unlithified siltstone |
| Lithology description: "clay and silt" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | UNSM | ||
| Collectors: | S. Ward, C. B. Schultz | Collection dates: | 1940 |
| Collection method comments: University of Nebraska collection
site was discovered by "Mr. Shafter Ward of the New Mexico Highway Department of Carlsbad" fossils were "eroding out" of the deposit and some "test pits" were dug | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 93246 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-01-08 21:15:35 | Last modified: | 2022-03-07 10:14:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-01-08 21:15:35 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 31522. | C. B. Schultz. 1943. Some artifact sites of early man in the Great Plains and adjacent areas. American Antiquity 8(3):242-249 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |