Skyline (TMM 41578) (Eocene of the United States)
Also known as Tepee Canyon
Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.2° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 95.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bandera Mesa Member (Devil's Graveyard Formation), Duchesnean (39.7 - 37.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Reposited in the TMM
Primary reference: J. A. Wilson and M. S. Stevens. 1986. Fossil vertebrates from the latest Eocene, Skyline channels, Trans-Pecos Texas. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming Special Paper 3:221-235 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 16855: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Skyline Channels are "along the northern margin of the Devil's Graveyard," which based on Stevens et al. 1984 is just east of the county line
overlies Middle Mbr. and underlies Dogie Creek; at same level as Cotter Channels
ash immediately beneath Skyline Channels dated at 42.7 +/- 1.6 Ma (KA): Stevens et al. 1984; this date is questioned by Prothero 1996b on paleomagnetic and general biochronologic grounds, and although he points out that the dated biotite flakes were very small his reasoning seems to depend on accepting the very questionable 41.2 Ma date for the Gill Breccia
overlies Middle Mbr. and underlies Dogie Creek; at same level as Cotter Channels
ash immediately beneath Skyline Channels dated at 42.7 +/- 1.6 Ma (KA): Stevens et al. 1984; this date is questioned by Prothero 1996b on paleomagnetic and general biochronologic grounds, and although he points out that the dated biotite flakes were very small his reasoning seems to depend on accepting the very questionable 41.2 Ma date for the Gill Breccia
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? Duchesneodus cf. uintensis Peterson 1931 brontothere includes specimen of "Sthenodectes australis" reported by Wilson 1977a;
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Mahgarita stevensi n. sp.
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