Also known as Costillo Pocket; Castillo Pocket; Eohippus Quarry; Simpson's Quarry
Where: Huerfano County, Colorado (37.8° N, 105.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 89.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Huerfano Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 15652: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Terri Cleary, Patricia Holroyd and Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Coryphodon sp. Owen 1845 pantodont | |
Esthonyx acutidens Cope 1881 tillodont | |
Palaeictops bicuspis Cope 1880 eutherian | |
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Eohippus angustidens3 Cope 1875 horse "Hyracotherium vasacciense vasacciense": i.d. repeated by Gingerich 1981
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"Leptotomus costilloi n. sp." = Notoparamys costilloi
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Reptilia | |
Glyptosaurus sylvestris7 Marsh 1871 squamates AMNH 7590, complete right frontal, parietal, right jugal, posterior part of right ramus and part of left surangular, body and cephalic osteoderms and unidentified bone fragments. From "Simpson's Quarry, near Gardner... 1952"- most likely Castillo Pocket, discovered at this time
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