Kladder J (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Top of Divide Creek

Where: Garfield County, Colorado (39.7° N, 107.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 91.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: DeBeque Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

• said to be late Wasatchian

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. J. Kihm. 1984. Early Eocene Mammalian Fauna of the Piceance Creek Basin. Northwestern Colorado. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 15416: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• level unknown but in Four Points Hill section
Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. Owen 1845 pantodont
 Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Oxyaena cf. pardalis Matthew and Granger 1915 creodont
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841 odd-toed ungulate
"F"
 Artiodactyla - Diacodexeidae
Bunophorus pattersoni Krishtalka and Stucky 1986 even-toed ungulate