THE PLIOCENE PROBOSCIDEAN RHYNCHOTHERIUM (MAMMALIA, GOMPHOTHERIIDAE) FROM SOUTH-CENTRAL NEW-MEXICO

Authors
LUCAS SG MORGAN GS
Citation
Sg. Lucas et Gs. Morgan, THE PLIOCENE PROBOSCIDEAN RHYNCHOTHERIUM (MAMMALIA, GOMPHOTHERIIDAE) FROM SOUTH-CENTRAL NEW-MEXICO, The Texas journal of science, 48(4), 1996, pp. 311-318
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
The Texas journal of science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00404403
Volume
48
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
311 - 318
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-4403(1996)48:4<311:TPPR(G>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
A lower jaw of a proboscidean from the Sierra Ladrones Formation of th e Santa Fe Group in south-central New Mexico shows diagnostic features of Rhynchotherium and can be tentatively referred to Rhynchotherium f alconeri Osborn pending a much needed species-level revision of the ge nus. This proboscidean is consistent with associated mammals and sugge sts a late Pliocene (Blancan) age, not younger than 2.2 million years ago.