Indian Valley: Wasatchian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus cf. wortmani Osborn 1902
    = Hyopsodus lysitensis Gingerich 1974
Redline 1997
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae
Diacodexis cf. secans (Cope 1881)
Krishtalka and Stucky 1986
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops cf. latidens (Cope 1882)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Rio Blanco
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 107.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.8° North, 91.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Middle Wasatchian
Key time interval:Wasatchian
Age range of interval:54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:DeBeque
Local section:WRivr Local bed:680 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be middle Wasatchian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:strat level is very approximate
Metadata
Database number:15224
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:40
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2078. A. J. Kihm. 1984. Early Eocene Mammalian Fauna of the Piceance Creek Basin. Northwestern Colorado. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

2184 L. Krishtalka and R. K. Stucky. 1986. Early Eocene artiodactyls from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, and the Piceance Basin, Colorado. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming Special Paper 3:183-196 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
6223 A. D. Redline. 1997. Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 13. Systematics and phylogenetic pattern of early Eocene Hyopsodus (Mammalia: Condylarthra). Annals of Carnegie Museum 66(1):1-81 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]