Tapiroid Locality (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as UCM 78023

Where: Garfield County, Colorado (39.7° N, 107.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 91.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: DeBeque Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

• said to be middle Wasatchian

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: A. J. Kihm. 1984. Early Eocene Mammalian Fauna of the Piceance Creek Basin. Northwestern Colorado. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 15302: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• list partially repeated by Hirsch et al. 1997
Mammalia
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus powellianus Cope 1884 condylarth
Hyopsodus lysitensis Gingerich 1974 condylarth
 Perissodactyla -
Heptodon calciculus Cope 1880 odd-toed ungulate
 Theriamorpha - Stylinodontidae
cf. Ectoganus sp. Cope 1874 taeniodont