Mammalian Biochronology of Blancan and Irvingtonian

• Main Authors: Early Pleistocene, Faunas New Mexico, Gary S. Morgan, Spencer, G. Lucas
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Grande Valley; Nunivak
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.693.5195; http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/447/B279a12.pdf?sequence%3D15

Significant mammalian faunas of Pliocene (Blancan) and early Pleistocene (early and medial Irvingtonian) age are known from the Rio Grande and Gila River valleys of New Mexico. Fossiliferous exposures of the Santa Fe Group in the Rio Grande Valley, extending from the Española basin in northern New...