PBDB

Eighteen Mile District: Harrisonian, Wyoming

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae

	Daphoenodon sp. Peterson 1909	Hunt 1998
	"Upper Harrison beds, 18-Mile District" (5 measurements)
	= Daphoenodon falkenbachi n. sp. Hunt 2002	Hunt 2002
	from the "High Brown Sand"

	Adilophontes brachykolos n. gen., n. sp. Hunt 2002	Hunt 2002
	"Upper Harrison beds" (5 measurements)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Desmocyon thomsoni (Matthew 1907)
	"Upper Harrison beds... 18 mi southeast of Lusk, middle brown sand"; "high brown sand"; and "high in section"

	Cynarctoides luskensis n. sp. Wang et al. 1999
	Upper Harrison Beds

	Cynarctoides acridens (Barbour and Cook 1914)
	"below high brown sand"
Mammalia - Ungulata - Merycoidodontidae

	Hypsiops luskensis n. sp. Schultz and Falkenbach 1950	Schultz and Falkenbach 1950
	(7 measurements)
	= Merycoides harrisonensis Peterson 1907	Alroy 2002
	recombined as Paramerychyus harrisonensis
	Harrison Fm., 2.5 mi SW of Van Tassel or 18 mi SE of Lusk, Niobrara Co.

	Merychyus arenarum Cope 1884	Schultz and Falkenbach 1947
	middle and high part of section

	Merychyus minimus Peterson 1907	Schultz and Falkenbach 1947
	lowest, middle, and upper part of section
Mammalia - Ungulata - Camelidae

	Stenomylus gracilis Peterson 1907	Frick and Taylor 1968
	"middle" and "high"
Mammalia - Ungulata - Moschidae

	Parablastomeryx falkenbachi n. sp. Frick 1937	Frick 1937
	= Pseudoblastomeryx falkenbachi Frick 1937	Alroy 2002
	synonym of Pseudoblastomeryx advena
	"18 miles S.E. of Lusk"
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Wyoming	County:	Goshen
Coordinates:	42.0° North, 104.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	42.9° North, 99.2° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit

Time



*Period:	Tertiary	*Epoch:	Miocene
Key time interval:	Harrisonian
Age range of interval:	24.80000 - 20.43000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Lithology and environment

Environment:

terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some genera
Taxonomic list comments:not the same as Sand Gulch (see), but 2.5 mi SW of Van Tassel according to Schultz and Falkenbach 1950 and possibly confused with that locality by other authors

Metadata

Database number:	17780
Authorizer:	J. Alroy	Enterer:	J. Alroy
Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1995-03-26 00:00:00	Last modified:	2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:	the public	Released:	1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

3558.

X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
6222		C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1549		C. Frick and B. E. Taylor. 1968. A Generic Review of the Stenomyline Camels. American Museum Novitates 2353:1-51 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/B. Beatty]
1977		R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
7676		R. M. Hunt, Jr. 2002. New amphicyonid carnivorans (Mammalia, Daphoeninae) from the early Miocene of southeastern Wyoming. American Museum Novitates 3385:1-41 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3064		C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1947. Merychyinae, a subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88(4):157-286 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3066		C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1950. Phenacocoelinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 95(3) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]