4 Points Hill (FMNH 68-41): Wasatchian, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus latidens
Denison 1937
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= Hyopsodus sp.
Leidy 1870
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Phenacodus primaevus
(Cope 1873)
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= Phenacodus sp.
Cope 1873
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Palaeotheriidae
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Hyracotherium sp.
Owen 1841
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"C" and "E" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Xenicohippus grangeri
Bown and Kihm 1981
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Reithroparamys debequensis
Wood 1962
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(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
= Notoparamys arctios n. sp.
Korth 1984
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Korth 1984 | |||||||||
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
Museum repositories: | FMNH |
Metadata
Database number: | 15370 | ||
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] | |
2105 | W. W. Korth. 1984. Earliest Tertiary evolution and radiation of rodents in North America. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 24:1-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |