Meniscotherium Hollow: Wasatchian, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus cf. miticulus
(Cope 1874)
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= Hyopsodus lysitensis
Gingerich 1974
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Redline 1997 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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Cantius trigonodus
(Matthew 1915)
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= Cantius frugivorus
Cope 1875
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Cantius abditus
(Gingerich and Simons 1977)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Reithroparamyidae
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Reithroparamys debequensis n. sp.
Wood 1962
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
- Hyaenodontidae
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Prototomus sp.
Cope 1874
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= Prototomus cf. martis
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
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Gunnell 1998 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Meniscotherium chamense
Cope 1874
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Palaeotheriidae
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Hyracotherium sp.
Owen 1841
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"C," "D," and "E" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Xenicohippus grangeri
Bown and Kihm 1981
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Mammalia
- Esthonychidae
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Esthonyx bisulcatus
Cope 1874
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Mammalia
- Coryphodontidae
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Coryphodon sp.
(Owen 1845)
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original and current combination Lophiodon (Coryphodon) | ||||||||||
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: | Middle Wasatchian |
Key time interval: | Wasatchian | ||
Age range of interval: | 54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection size: | 35 specimens |
Museum repositories: | FMNH |
Metadata
Also known as: | FMNH 240-41 | ||
Database number: | 15290 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | 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:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
1735 | G. F. Gunnell. 1998. Creotonda. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
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] |