Parahippus Level: Harrisonian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Palaeocastor sp.
Leidy 1869
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= Castoridae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| same locality | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Parahippus wyomingensis n. sp.
Schlaikjer 1935
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapiridae indet.
(Gray 1821)
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= Miotapirus harrisonensis n. sp.
Schlaikjer 1937
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Schlaikjer 1937 | |||||||||
| said by Schlaikjer 1935b to be "from exactly the same level as the Parahippus wyomingensis specimen and... only a short distance from that specimen" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merychyus minimus
Peterson 1907
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| about one mile NE of the main locality and "at exactly the same level" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Oxydactylus sp.
Peterson 1904
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= Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| comparisons to "O." brachyodontus; "same block of sandstone" as Parahippus wyomingensis | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Goshen |
| Coordinates: | 42.0° North, 104.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.9° North, 99.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Harrisonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.10000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Hemingford | Formation: | Marsland | ||
| Local section: | Goshn | Local bed: | 7 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: = Upper Harrison beds | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:SW 1/4 sec 10 T 24N R 65W "500 feet above the Brule-lower Harrison contact" | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17817 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2018-02-05 13:48:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3041. | E. M. Schlaikjer. 1935. Contributions to the Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of the Goshen Hole Area, Wyoming. III. A New Basal Oligocene Formation. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 76(3):71-93 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 3042 | E. M. Schlaikjer. 1937. A New Tapir from the Lower Miocene of Wyoming. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 80(4):231-251 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |