Above Head of Bear Gulch (Lower): Wasatchian, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus powellianus
Cope 1884
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hyracotherium sp.
Owen 1841
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= Xenicohippus osborni
Bown and Kihm 1981
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Froehlich 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Diacodexeidae
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Diacodexis metsiacus
(Cope 1882)
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= Diacodexis cf. metsiacus
Cope 1882
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Mammalia
- Leptictidae
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Prodiacodon tauricinerei
(Jepsen 1930)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Mesa |
| Coordinates: | 39.2° North, 108.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.0° North, 92.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Local age/stage: | Middle Wasatchian |
| Key time interval: | Wasatchian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Museum repositories: | FMNH |
Metadata
| Also known as: | FMNH 500-41 | ||
| Database number: | 15391 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2078. | A. J. Kihm. 1984. Early Eocene Mammalian Fauna of the Piceance Creek Basin. Northwestern Colorado. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 53105 | D. J. Froehlich. 2002. Quo vadis Eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134:141-256 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 2184 | L. Krishtalka and R. K. Stucky. 1986. Early Eocene artiodactyls from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, and the Piceance Basin, Colorado. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming Special Paper 3:183-196 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |