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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Formation
- Chamita
- Geologic interval
- Late Hemphillian
- Age
- 9.4–4.7 Ma
- Depositional environment
- terrestrial indet.
- Recorded occurrences
- 2
coordinates based on Alcalde, NM
Fossils found here
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 19338 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
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Getting there
Location on Map
Coordinates: 36.08891, -106.05363
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