Twelve-Fifteen Mile District: Harrisonian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Schizodontomys sulcidens Rensberger 1973
"Marsland... 12-15 miles south of Lusk"
Mammalia - Camelidae
Stenomylus gracilis Peterson 1907
Frick and Taylor 1968
Mammalia - Moschidae
Parablastomeryx falkenbachi Frick 1937
Frick 1937
    = Pseudoblastomeryx falkenbachi Frick 1937
Alroy 2002
synonym of Pseudoblastomeryx advena
"12-15 miles S. of Lusk"
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Merychyus minimus Peterson 1907
Schultz and Falkenbach 1947
Merychyus arenarum Cope 1884
Schultz and Falkenbach 1947
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Desmocyon thomsoni (Matthew 1907)
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]