Perspiration Peak: Wasatchian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Oxyaena cf. lupina Cope 1874
    = Oxyaena forcipata Cope 1874
Gunnell and Gingerich 1991
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841
"C" and "F"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Xenicohippus osborni Bown and Kihm 1981
see common names

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
Formation:DeBeque
Local section:FourP Local bed:228 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be middle Wasatchian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Also known as:UCM 78087
Database number:15399
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
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:

1745 G. F. Gunnell and P. D. Gingerich. 1991. Systematics and Evolution of Late Paleocene and Early Eocene Oxyaenidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(7):141-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]