Knight Station (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Uinta County, Wyoming (41.2° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.3° N, 94.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Wasatch Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: C. L. Gazin. 1962. A Further Study Of The Lower Eocene Mammalian Faunas Of Southwestern Wyoming. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 144(1):1-98 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 15661: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Jonathan Marcot
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Taxonomic list
• in the "Knight Mbr."
said to be of "Lysite" age and in the "La Barge" horizon, below the Cathedral Bluffs Tongue; apparently the "small medial Wasatchian mammalian assemblage that includes Heptodon" from the type area of the Wasatch Fm. near Evanston of Krishtalka et al. 1987 p. 103L
"Diacodon sp." is listed by Van Houten 1945 but omitted by Gazin
"? Pelycodus sp." is listed by Gazin 1952 but omitted by Gazin 1962
"Didymictis cf. altidens" is listed by Van Houten 1945 and Gazin 1952 but omitted by Gazin 1962
said to be of "Lysite" age and in the "La Barge" horizon, below the Cathedral Bluffs Tongue; apparently the "small medial Wasatchian mammalian assemblage that includes Heptodon" from the type area of the Wasatch Fm. near Evanston of Krishtalka et al. 1987 p. 103L
"Diacodon sp." is listed by Van Houten 1945 but omitted by Gazin
"? Pelycodus sp." is listed by Gazin 1952 but omitted by Gazin 1962
"Didymictis cf. altidens" is listed by Van Houten 1945 and Gazin 1952 but omitted by Gazin 1962
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Coryphodon radians Cope 1872 pantodont includes "C. hamatus" and "C. semicinctus" of earlier authors and "C. anthracoideus" and "C. subquadratus" of Lucas 1998b
Coryphodon armatus Cope 1872 pantodont not directly listed by Gazin, but type of "C. elephantopus" is indicated to be from here
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Esthonyx sp. Cope 1874 tillodont | |
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Minippus index2 Cope 1873 horse possibly includes the type, see Granger 1908; type of "Orotherium index" is also from "Evanston"
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Hexacodus uintensis Gazin 1952 even-toed ungulate
Hexacodus pelodes Gazin 1952 even-toed ungulate | |
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Paramys excavatus Loomis 1907 rodent possibly the same as P. copei copei and/or P. copei major and/or P. excavatus excavatus from "Knight" described by Wood 1962
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