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The Eocene Biostratigraphy of New Mexico The Eocene biostratigraphy of New Mexico SPENCER G. LUCAS ) Department of Geology and Geophysics and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, ROBERT M. SCHOCH / P.O. Box 6666, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 EARL MANNING 108 West 80th Street, New York, New York 10024 COSTAS TSENTAS Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, New York 10003 ABSTRACT Of these, only the Baca, Galisteo, and San this 16.5-m.y. interval includes the later part Jose Formations have produced vertebrate of the Clarkforkian land mammal "age", the The San Jose, Galisteo, and Baca fossils that demonstrate that part of their entire Wasatchian, Bridgerian, Uintan, and Formations are continental deposits in New included strata are of Eocene age. An Duchesnean land mammal "ages," and the Mexico containing Eocene vertebrate fos- Eocene age was assigned to the other forma- earlier part of the Chadronian land mam- sils. The Almagre and Largo local faunas of tions on the basis of structural context, stra- mal "age" (Berggren and others, 1978; the San Jose Formation in the- San Juan tigraphic position, lithology, and radio- McKenna and others, 1973; Rose, 1980). basin are Lysitean (middle Wasatchian). metric dates. Because our concern is with The Clarkforkian land mammal "age" The Cerrillos local fauna of the Galisteo biostratigraphy, we do not further discuss straddles the Paleocene-Eocene boundary Formation also is Wasatchian, possibly these largely unfossiliferous formations; (Rose, 1980). No vertebrate fossils of Clark- Lysitean. Strata of the Baca Formation in instead, we concentrate on determining the forkian age are known from New Mexico south-central New Mexico contain the ti- ages of the fossiliferous parts of the Baca, (Tsentas and Lucas, 1980). The beginning of tanotheres Palaeosyops sp. and cf. Man- Galisteo, and San Jose Formations and Wasatchian time in western North America teoceras sp. and are the only Bridgerian their correlation with recognized subdivi- is recognized biostratigraphically by the strata known in New Mexico. The Tonque sions of the Eocene elsewhere in western first occurrence of perissodactyls, artiodac- local fauna of the Galisteo Formation and North America. tyls, adapid and omomyid primates, and fossil vertebrates from the Baca Formation To achieve these goals, we (1) briefly dis- hyaenodontid deltatheridians, among others in west-central New Mexico are correlatives cuss and define (when necessary) the subdi- (Rose, 1980). Vertebrate fossils of Wasat- of the Lapoint (Utah), Pearson Ranch visions of the Eocene used here; (2) review chian age occur in New Mexico in the San (California), and Porvenir (Texas) local the stratigraphy and vertebrate faunas of Jose and Galisteo Formations. faunas and are Duchesnean. the Baca, Galisteo, and San Jose Forma- Subdivision of the Wasatchian land Precise placement of the Paleocene- tions and discuss their age; (3) summarize mammal "age" has had a long history. Eocene and Eocene-Oligocene boundaries the remaining biostratigraphic problems in Three traditional and informal "subages," in New Mexico using vertebrate biostrati- the New Mexico Eocene; and (4) present a the Graybullian (early), Lysitean (middle), graphy is impossible because of a lack of correlation chart of the vertebrate fossil- and Lostcabinian (late), are based largely fossils at critical horizons. The near absence bearing strata of the New Mexico Eocene. on the taxon range zones of the tapiroid of Bridgerian and total absence of Uintan Part II of this paper is an annotated biblio- perissodactyls Homogalax (presumably fossils in New Mexico may result from a graphy of references on the stratigraphy and Graybullian) and Heptodon (presumably lack of collecting, particularly in parts of paleontology of the New Mexico Eocene, Lysitean and Lostcabinian) and the palaeo- the Baca Formation. including references consulted in the prepa- there Lambdotherium (presumably Lost- ration of this paper but not cited here. cabinian) (Sinclair and Granger, 1911). INTRODUCTION Subsequent studies have revealed a much BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC SUBDIVISION more complex picture of Wasatchian bio- The Eocene Epoch, nearly 17 m.y. of OF THE EOCENE IN WESTERN stratigraphy (Schankler, 1980); in our opin- earth history, is well represented by conti- NORTH AMERICA ion, no clearly defined and readily usable nental deposits and vertebrate fossils in subdivision of the Wasatchian yet exists. New Mexico. Formations in New Mexico We consider the Eocene Epoch to include Schankler's (1980) range-zone biostratig- that have been assigned an Eocene age are the interval from approximately 53.5 m.y. raphy of the Wasatchian in the Bighorn the Baca, Blanco Basin, Cub Mountain, El B.P. to approximately 37 m.y. B.P. Basin, Wyoming is the most explicit and Rito, Espinaso, Galisteo, Love Ranch, (Berggren and others, 1978; Hardenbol and useful attempt to subdivide the Wasatchian McRae, Orejon, Palm Park, and San Jose. Berggren, 1978). In western North America, biostratigraphically. However, outside of This article is based on a paper presented at a symposium entitled "Cenozoic Continental Deposits and Fossils of New Mexico," held in April 1981. Supplementary data for this article appear in Part II of the Bulletin, v. 92, no. 12, p. 2268-2307. Geological Society of America Bulletin, Part I, v. 92, p. 951-967, 11 figs., 3 tables, December 1981. 951 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-pdf/92/12/951/3430070/i0016-7606-92-12-951.pdf by guest on 30 September 2021 952 LUCAS AND OTHERS the Bighorn Basin, the absence of taxa criti- importance here. Briefly, the Bridgerian has into North America of ruminants (Simi- cal to Schankler's (1980) biostratigraphy been defined by the presence of typical meryx and Hendryomeryx), true entelo- and unresolved taxonomic problems lessen Bridgerian taxa such as Palaeosycps, donts (Brachyhyops), large rhinos (Tri- the utility of Schankler's subdivisions when Homacodon, Uintatherium, Helaletes, and gonias and/or Subhyracodon), and large attempting correlation with the faunas of "advanced" paramyids and by the absence hyaenodonts (Pterodon, Hyaenodon, and the San Jose Formation in New Mexico. (presumed extinction) of typical Wasat- Hemipsalodori) (Golz, 1976; Mellett, 1977; Although we here use Schankler's (1980, chian taxa such as Coryphodon, Hyracoth- Webb, 1977; but see Black, 1978, for a dif- Fig. 1) subdivision of the Wasatchian into erium, and Pelycodus (Gazin, 1976; ferent view of ruminant origins). The ratio- the Gray Bull biostratigraphic zone Gingerich, 1979; Guthrie, 1971; West, nale behind defining land mammal "age" (= Haplomylus-Ectocion range zone plus 1973a; Wood and others, 1941). Compara- boundaries by immigration events has been Bunophorus interval zone), Lysite biostra- ble criteria and the first appearance of amy- discussed and, in our opinion, justified by tigraphic zone (= lower and middle Hep- nodont rhinocerotoids by immigration from Repenning (1967). The evolutionary first todon range zone), and Lostcabin bio- Asia mark the beginning of the Uintan occurrence of Teleodus, Mesohippus, and stratigraphic zone (= upper Heptodon range (Black and Dawson, 1966; Wood and oth- Poabromylus also help to define the Uintan- zone), we also rely on comparisons with the ers, 1941). Duchesnean boundary. "type" Lysite Member and Lostcabin Tedford (1970, p. 690-692) and Wilson The Duchesnean-Chadronian boundary Member faunas of the Wind River Basin, (1978, p. 33-37) have reviewed the history of is defined by the immigration into North Wyoming (Guthrie, 1967, 1971) for faunal the differing views of the validity of the America of a number of taxa, including the characterization of these time intervals. Duchesnean land mammal "age." We here anthracothere Bothriodon, the carnivores Very few fossils of Bridgerian age and follow Tedford (1970) and Golz (1976), con- Musielavus, Palaeogale, Hoptophoneus, none that we consider of Uintan age are tra Wilson (1978) and Emry (1981), in rec- and Parictis and the manid Patriomanis, known in New Mexico, and so the biostra- ognizing the Duchesnean to be a distinct although admittedly most of these taxa are tigraphic recognition and subdivision of land mammal "age." We define the Uintan- rare (Emry, 1970; Simpson, 1947). The these land mammal "ages" is not of great Duchesnean boundary by the immigration Duchesnean land mammal "age" is character- Figure 1. Outcrops of the San Jose Formation, San Juan basin, northwestern New Mexico: A. Strata of the Regina Member in the type area of the San Jose Formation, NW'/S, sec. 29, T. 2*3 N., R. 1 W. El. Strata of the Tapicitos Member in the headlands of Oso Canyon, NW'/4, sec. 30, T. 25 N., R. 1 W. C. Strata of the Regina Member in the headlands of Gobernador Canyon, SW'/4, sec. 26, T. 29 N., R. 5 W. Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-pdf/92/12/951/3430070/i0016-7606-92-12-951.pdf by guest on 30 September 2021 EOCENE BIOSTR ATIGRAPH Y OF NEW MEXICO 953 ¡zed by the Lapoint fauna of the Duchesne imately equals the Almagre "beds" or was by Granger (1915) and Matthew River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah, which "facies" of Granger (1914) and Simpson (1915a, 1915b, 1915c, 1918). Van Houten is the "type" fauna of the Duchesnean as (1948); it also includes the lower part of (1945) gave the most recent list of San Jose defined by Wood and others (1941), and its their Largo. The Llaves Member (as much vertebrates. correlatives. The best studied correlatives of as 400 m thick) primarily consists of coarse- Granger (1914) recognized two distinct the Lapoint are the Pearson Ranch local grained and conglomeratic, arkosic sand- faunas in the San Jose, Almagre and Largo, fauna, Sespe Formation, California (Golz, stone and lesser amounts of red and corresponding to the "beds" to which he 1976; Golz and Lillegraven, 1977) and the variegated mudstone. It either overlies the assigned these names. The Regina Member Porvenir local fauna, Chambers Tuff, Texas Cuba Mesa or Regina Members, or it south and east of the continental divide (Wilson, 1978).
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