Exposure Near Top of Buzzard Pass: Wasatchian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops scottianus Cope 1881
    = Microsyops elegans Marsh 1871
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841
"F"
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus powellianus Cope 1884
Mammalia - Leptictidae
Palaeictops matthewi n. sp. Novacek 1977
    = Palaeictops multicuspis Granger 1910
Alroy 2002
original and current combination Parictops multicuspis
locality information of Novacek 1977 is erroneous
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:Late/Upper 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:FourP Local bed:338 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be late Wasatchian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:FMNH
Metadata
Also known as:FMNH 485-41
Database number:15420
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]