Bates Hole (Reed Collection) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Natrona County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 107.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 98.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: lower Member (White River Formation), Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: W. D. Matthew. 1910. On the skull of Apternodus and the skeleton of a new artiodactyl. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 28(5):33-42 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 16898: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

• apparently a single locality
could be in Carbon County, but most likely in same Natrona County deposits that yield Harshman's main Chadronian fauna
reference and specimens apparently unknown to Harshman 1972
said to be "Lower Oligocene"
Mammalia
 Soricomorpha - Apternodontidae
Apternodus brevirostris n. sp.2 Schlaikjer 1934 placental
 Carnivora - Canidae
Hesperocyon gregarius1 Cope 1873 canid
 Artiodactyla - Oromerycidae
Eotylopus reedi n. sp. Matthew 1910 even-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
"Titanotheriidae indet." = Brontotheriidae
"Titanotheriidae indet." = Brontotheriidae Marsh 1873 brontothere
 Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Cylindrodon sp.1 Douglass 1902 rodent