Where: White Pine County, Nevada (39.0° N, 114.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 101.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: "Sheep Pass" Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• from "a bed of limestone about 25 to 30 cm thick"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• much of the collection is from a quarry "approximately 2 by 3 m" in area
Primary reference: R. J. Emry. 1990. Mammals of the Bridgerian (middle Eocene) Elderberry Canyon Local Fauna of eastern Nevada. In T. M. Bown and K. D. Rose (eds.), Dawn of the Age of Mammals in the Northern Part of the Rocky Mountain Interior, North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 243:187-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 16218: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Amphibia | |
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Mammalia | |
Mattimys sp. Korth 1984 rodent | |
Reithroparamys delicatissimus Leidy 1871 rodent
Reithroparamys cf. huerfanensis Wood 1962 rodent | |
Sciuravus sp. Marsh 1871 rodent | |
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Uintasorex sp. Matthew 1909 primate | |
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Trogolemur myodes Matthew 1909 tarsier | |
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"Hyrachyus modestus" = Hyrachyus modestus, "Hyrachyus affinis" = Hyrachyus modestus
"Hyrachyus modestus" = Hyrachyus modestus Leidy 1870 odd-toed ungulate
"Hyrachyus affinis" = Hyrachyus modestus Leidy 1870 odd-toed ungulate | |
Helaletes nanus Marsh 1871 odd-toed ungulate
Isectolophus latidens Osborn et al. 1878 odd-toed ungulate | |
Antiacodon pygmaeus Cope 1872 even-toed ungulate | |
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Viverravidae indet. Wortman and Matthew 1899 placental
Viverravus minutus Wortman 1901 placental | |
? Tetrapassalus cf. mckennai Simpson 1959 placental | |
Hyopsodus paulus Leidy 1870 condylarth | |
Apatemys bellus Marsh 1872 eutherian | |
"Pantolestes longicaudus" = Pantolestes longieundus
"Pantolestes longicaudus" = Pantolestes longieundus Cope 1872 eutherian | |
Reptilia | |
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Aves | |
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