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north of White Operation Wash, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 35.0986,-106.129 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | estimated from map |
Given Location | New Mexico, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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north of White Operation Wash | Bourque J. R. (2012) | Tesuque - Skull Ridge | Magnetostratigraphy and ash dating have shown the Skull Ridge Member to span between 16.0 and 14.9 Ma (Barghoorn, 1981; Tedford and Barghoorn, 1993; Berggren et al., 1995) and sanidine 40Ar/39Ar dates of 15.42 ± 0.06 Ma (McIntosh and Quade, 1995) and 15.3 ± 0.05 Ma were obtained from the White Ash Number 4 near the top of the Skull Ridge Member (Tedford et al., 2004) | not reported | 15.97 - 13.6 Ma Miocene |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Kinosternon skullridgescens species | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Kinosternidae : Kinosternon : Kinosternon skullridgescens | 15.97 - 13.6 Ma Miocene |
References
Bourque J. R. (2012) A fossil mud turtle (Testudines, Kinosternidae) from the early middle Miocene (early Barstovian) of New Mexico, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32, 836-853 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!