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2001
New microvertebrate localities in the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland and Kirtland formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Thomas E. Williamson1 and Anne Weil2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104, twilliamson@nmmnh.state.nm.us 2Dept. of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, 08 Biological Sciences
Late Pleistocene mammoths (Mammuthus Columbi) from Mesa Redonda, Quay County, east-central New Mexico
Gary S. Morgan1, Spencer G. Lucas1 and Mark E. Gordon1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road, NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 In 1929, Robert Abercrombie discovered parts of at least five
Timing of metamorphism and style of deformation in the Big Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico
Jeffrey M. Amato1, Amos E. Sanders1 and Nick A. Bulloss2 1Dept. Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 2Dept. Geological Sciences, University of Texas, EI Paso, TX The Precambrian rocks of the Big
The facies of the nonmarine to shallow marine Red Tanks Formation, Pennyslvanian_Permian, central New Mexico
Karl Krainer1, Spencer G. Lucas2 and Barry S. Kues3 1Instit. Geol., Univ. Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria 2New Mex. Mus. Nat. Hist., Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 3Dept. Earth & Planet. Sci, UNM, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 The
Early Permian vertebrate fossils from the Red Tanks Formation of the Madera Group, Lucero uplift, central New Mexico
Susan K. Harris1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 Fossil vertebrates are present at nine localities in the Red Tanks Formation of the Madera Group in the Carrizo
Does the enigmatic tetrapod Ichnotaxon Barrancapus Cresapi from the Upper Triassic Bull Canyon Formation of east-central New Mexico represent the oldest Prosauropod trackway?
Adrian P. Hunt1, Spencer G. Lucas2 and Andrew B. Heckert3 1Mesalands Dinosaur Museum, Mesa Technical College, 911 South Tenth Street, Tucumcari, NM, 88401 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM,
Comparison of the tetrapod faunas inferred from osteological and ichnological data derived from lakeshore facies of the Upper Triaassic Redonda Formation, east-central New Mexico
Adrian P. Hunt1, Lucas G. Spencer2, Martin G. Lockley3 and Andrew B. Heckert4 1Mesalands Dinosaur Museum, Mesa Technical College, 911 South Tenth Street, Tucumcari, NM, 88401 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road
Phytosaurs (Reptilia: Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic Petrified Forest Formation, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
Adrian P. Hunt1, Andrew B. Heckert2 and Spencer G. Lucas3 1Mesalands Dinosaur Museum, Mesa Technical College, 911 South Tenth Street, Tucumcari, NM, New Mexico, 88401 2Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico,
The biochronological and paleoecological significance of the Ornithischian Dinosaur Revueltosaurus Callenderi in the Upper Triassic of the American Southwest
Jeremiah Wright1, Adrian P. Hunt1 and Howard Beuhler1 1Mesalands Dinosaur Museum, Mesa Technical College, 911 South Tenth Street, Tucumcari, NM, New Mexico, 88401 Late Triassic omithischian dinosaurs are uncommon in North America. The largest and
Dinosaurs and volcanoes-A few Late Triassic vertebrate fauna from the Black Forest Bed, Petrified Forest National Park
Howard Beuhler1, Adrian P. Hunt1 and Jeremiah Wright1 1Mesalands Dinosaur Museum, Mesa Technical College, 911 South Tenth Street, Tucumcari, NM, New Mexico, 88401 During the last five years the Mesalands Dinosaur Museum has conducted the
Microvertebrate fossils from the Late Carnian Lamy Amphibian Quarry, east-central New Mexico
L. F. Rinehart1 and Andrew B. Heckert2 1New Mex. Mus. Nat. Hist. (NMMNH), 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104, lrinehart@msn.com 2Dept. Earth & Plan. Sci., Univ New Mex., Albuquerque, NM, 87131 The Lamy amphibian
A dinosaur-bearing microvertebrate fauna from the Upper Triassic Los Esteros Member, Santa Rosa Formation (Adamanian:Latest Carnian), central New Mexico
Andrew B. Heckert1 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1Dept. Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, heckerta@unm.edu 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Albuquerque, NM, 87101 We report here a
New occurrence of Trilophosaurus (Archosauromorpha) from the Upper Triassic of West Texas and its biochronological significance
Andrew B. Heckert1, Spencer G. Lucas2, K. Zeigler3 and Robert Kahle4 1Dept. Earth & Planetary Sciences (E&PS), University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87131, heckerta@unm.edu 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque,
Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous Greenhorn Formation outlier, Harding County, New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas1 and Andrew B. Heckert2 1New Mex. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 2Dept. Earth & Planet. Sci., UNM, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87131 Upper Cretaceous strata
Avian and mammalian tracks from the Middle Miocene (Late Barstovian) Benavidez Ranch local fauna, Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico
Thomas E. Williamson1 and Gary S. Morgan1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 The middle Miocene (Late Barstovian) Cerro Conejo Member, Zia Formation on
Selachian fauna from the Dalton Sandstone (Upper Cretaceous, Coniacian), central New Mexico
Sally C. Johnson1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 A locality in the Coniacian Dalton Sandstone along the Rio Puerco in Bernalillo County, New
Lateral variability of axial-fluvial sediment and paleosols of the Plio-Pleistocene Camp Rice Formation, southern Rio Grande rift.
Risa D. Madoff1 and Greg H. Mack1 1Dept. of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, rmadoff@nmsu.edu Field data gathered from measured sections of the upper 40 m of the Camp Rice
Geochronology of Pliocene and Early Pleistocene (Blanca and Irvingtonian) vertebrate faunas from New Mexico
Gary S. Morgan1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 Thirty vertebrate fossil assemblages from New Mexico date from the early Pliocene (~4 Ma) to
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian) lacustrine deposit in the Atrasado Formation, Cerros de Amado, Socorro County, New Mexico
Allan J. Lerner1, Spencer G. Lucas1 and Barry S. Kues2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 2Earth & Planet. Sci…, UNM, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87131
The stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology of the Nacimiento Formation in the lower Animas Valley of the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado
Shirley A. Libed1, Michael S. Petronis1, Spencer G. Lucas2 and Laura J. Crossey1 1Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801
Tertiary north-south stretching in the Little Hatchet Mountains, southwestern New Mexico
Michael S. Cleary1, Jeffrey M. Amato1 and Timothy F. Lawton1 1Dept. Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, micleary@nmsu.edu The Little Hatchet Mountains of southwestern New Mexico expose rocks of Paleozoic to Tertiary
Hydraulic conductivity vs. geology in new Los Alamos wells
William Stone1, Stephen McLin1 and David Vaniman1 1Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, wstone@lanl.gov Eleven screened intervals representing two geologic units have been tested in five new wells at Los Alamos National Laboratory. All
Ground-water production in Tertiary sediments underlying Servilleta Basalts in southern San Luis Basin in the vicinity of Taos, New Mexico
Paul G. Drakos1, Jay Lazarus1 and Meghan Hodgins1 1Glorieta Geoscience, Inc., Santa Fe, NM, drakos@glorietageo.com A drilling and testing program funded by the Bureau of Reclamation (in progress) carried out with oversight by Glorieta Geoscience,
Precision temperature logs used to estimate vertical and horizontal components of ground-water flow, examples from the Albuquerque Basin
Marshall A. Reiter New Mexico Bureau of Mines, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801, mreiter@nmt.edu It has been known for many years that subsurface temperatures can be affected by both climatic