Douglas Area Upper Chadron (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Converse County, Wyoming (42.9° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 96.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Chadron Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: E. Evanoff, D. R. Prothero, and R. H. Lander. 1992. Elocene-Oligocene climatic change in North America: The White River Formation near Douglass, East-Central Wyoming. 116-130 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 16942: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• tuffs 4 and 5 are above, not correlable with, the F:AM "Upper Puprle White": Larson and Evanoff 1998
between tuffs 4 and 5
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Yoderimyinae indet.1 Wood 1955 rodent
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Ischyromyidae indet.1, "Titanotheriomys veterior" = Ischyromys veterior
Ischyromyidae indet.1 Alston 1876 rodent
"Titanotheriomys veterior" = Ischyromys veterior Matthew 1903 rodent
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Megalagus brachyodon Matthew 1903 rabbit
Megalagus turgidus Cope 1873 rabbit
Palaeolagus haydeni Leidy 1856 rabbit
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon crucians Leidy 1853 creodont
Hyaenodon horridus Leidy 1853 creodont
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Merycoidodon culbertsoni" = Merycoidodon culbertsonii Leidy 1848 oreodont
Miniochoerus forsythae3 Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 oreodont
Miniochoerus chadronensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 oreodont
includes "Stenopsochoerus douglasensis" Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 from Chadron Fm., UNSM Wyo-3 7 mi SE of Douglas
 Artiodactyla - Leptomerycidae
Leptomeryx speciosus Lambe 1908 ruminant
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Protoceratidae indet.1 Marsh 1891 protoceratid
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Poebrotherium eximium Hay 1902 camel
see also Prothero 1996d
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Subhyracodon mitis2 Cope 1875 rhinoceros
"From the late Chadronian: ... from Douglas, Converse County, Wyoming"
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Brontotheriidae indet. Marsh 1873 brontothere
 Theriamorpha - Leptictidae
Leptictis dakotensis Leidy 1868 eutherian