Twelve-Fifteen Mile District: Harrisonian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Schizodontomys sulcidens
Rensberger 1973
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"Marsland... 12-15 miles south of Lusk" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Stenomylus gracilis
Peterson 1907
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Frick and Taylor 1968 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Moschidae
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Parablastomeryx falkenbachi
Frick 1937
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Frick 1937 | |||||||||
= Pseudoblastomeryx falkenbachi
Frick 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
synonym of Pseudoblastomeryx advena | ||||||||||
"12-15 miles S. of Lusk" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merychyus minimus
Peterson 1907
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1947 | |||||||||
Merychyus arenarum
Cope 1884
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1947 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Desmocyon thomsoni
(Matthew 1907)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
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
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
Key time interval: | Harrisonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 24.80000 - 20.43000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Taxonomic list comments:formation unclear but reported as Marsland equivalent by Frick and Taylor 1968 (whose usage is questionable) and Korth 1997a, and Upper Harrison by Wang et al. 1999 |
Metadata
Database number: | 17847 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2132. | W. W. Korth. 1997. A new subfamily of primitive pocket mice (Rodentia, Heteromyidae) from the middle Tertiary of North America. Paludicola 1(2):33-66 [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] | |
6222 | C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
1549 | C. Frick and B. E. Taylor. 1968. A Generic Review of the Stenomyline Camels. American Museum Novitates 2353:1-51 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/B. Beatty] | |
3064 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1947. Merychyinae, a subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88(4):157-286 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
3558 | X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |