R.C. Hills #5: Bridgerian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Esthonychidae
Trogosus grangeri Gazin 1953
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Helaletes cf. nanus (Marsh 1871)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Palaeosyops fontinalis Cope 1873
see common names

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:50.30000 - 46.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Huerfano
Local section:Huerf Local bed:4
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:Gardnerbuttean - "upper faunal zone"
Metadata
Database number:16398
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 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]