One Mile a Little Southeast of Gardner Butte: Bridgerian, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Palaeosyops fontinalis
Cope 1873
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Huerfano |
| Coordinates: | 37.8° North, 105.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.3° North, 91.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Bridgerian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 50.50000 - 46.20000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:probably sec 20 T26S R69W "undoubtedly the lowest upper faunal zone locality in Huerfano Park" = below University of Michigan locality and above Huerfano VII | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 16298 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | T. Cleary | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-07-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2016-07-07 11:35:12 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-07-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2921. | P. Robinson. 1966. Fossil Mammalia of the Huerfano Formation, Eocene, of Colorado. Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 21:1-95 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |