Huerfano V (Eocene of the United States)
Also known as William's Creek;
Where: Huerfano County, Colorado (37.8° N, 105.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 91.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Huerfano Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone
• "The fossils were collected from a red-to-pink mudstone which may be correlative with unit 9 of the locality II section. Locality V is separated from locality II by a small pediment-capped divide."
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 16242: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Gardnerbuttean
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Trogosus grangeri Gazin 1953 tillodont | |
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Palaeosyops fontinalis Cope 1873 brontothere | |
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Hyrachyus modestus Leidy 1870 odd-toed ungulate | |
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Viverravus gracilis Marsh 1872 placental | |
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