Exposure in Gully 1/2 Mile West of Golf Course: Wasatchian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus latidens Denison 1937
    = Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870
Alroy 2002
Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870
large
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841
"A"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Homogalax protapirinus (Wortman 1896)
Heptodon sp. Cope 1882
small
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae
Diacodexis cf. robustus Sinclair 1914
    = Simpsonodus chacensis Cope 1875
Krishtalka and Stucky 1986
from "348-41"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys excavatus Loomis 1907
Paramys copei Loomis 1907
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Cantius trigonodus (Matthew 1915)
    = Cantius frugivorus Cope 1875
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Garfield
Coordinates: 39.7° North, 107.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.5° North, 91.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Early/Lower 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:Rifle Local bed:295 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be early Wasatchian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:FMNH
Metadata
Also known as:FMNH 328-41
Database number:15277
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:40
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 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:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
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]