Also known as small arroyo north of Colorado Highway 69; two miles east of Gardner Butte
Where: Huerfano County, Colorado (37.8° N, 105.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 89.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Farisita Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• "This locality is in the Farisita facies."
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, gray mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. Robinson. 1966. Fossil Mammalia of the Huerfano Formation, Eocene, of Colorado. Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 21:1-95 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 15649: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Coryphodon "molestus" Lucas and Schoch 1987: "C. sp."; from "1/4 mi NW of other specimens"
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"Cynodontomys scottianus" = Microsyops scottianus
"Cynodontomys scottianus" = Microsyops scottianus Cope 1881 primate | |
Viverravus gracilis Marsh 1872 placental | |
"Protorohippus venticolus" = Protorohippus venticolum1
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Lambdotherium popoagicum Cope 1880 brontothere | |
? Heptodon sp. Cope 1882 odd-toed ungulate | |
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