Zygolophodon Quarry: Barstovian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Zygolophodon proavus
(Cope 1873)
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Madden and Storer 1985 | |||||||||
| recombined as Miomastodon proavus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Moschidae
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Blastomeryx cf. elegans
Matthew and Cook 1909
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| synonym of Blastomeryx gemmifer | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Merycodus sp.
Leidy 1854
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= Merycodontinae indet.
Matthew 1904
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ticholeptus sp.
Cope 1878
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Tomarctus hippophaga
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
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| "hippophagus" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Monosaulax cf. pansus
(Cope 1874)
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= Eucastor cf. tortus
Leidy 1858
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Voorhies 1990 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Hypolagus cf. vetus
(Kellogg 1910)
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= Hypolagus sp.
Dice 1917
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| "H. cf. gidleyi" of White 1988 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Saskatchewan |
| Coordinates: | 49.2° North, 106.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.8° North, 102.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Barstovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wood Mountain |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:based on a 1987 pers. commun. from Storer not clear which ROM or SMNH locality this pertains to |
Metadata
| Database number: | 18799 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 01:08:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3306. | J. E. Storer. 1987. Dental evolution and radiation of Eocene and early Oligocene Eomyidae (Mammalia, Rodentia) of North America, with new material from the Duchesnean of Saskatchewan. Dakoterra 3:108-117 [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] | |
| 2394 | C. T. Madden and J. E. Storer. 1985. The Proboscidea from the Middle Miocene Wood Mountain Formation, Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 22 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
| 3503 | M. R. Voorhies. 1990. Vertebrate paleontology of the proposed Norden Reservoir Area, Brown, Cherry and Keya Paha counties, Nebraska. Technical Report, Division of Archeological Research, Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska 82-09 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |