Huerfano XI: Lysitean, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Geoemydidae
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Echmatemys ? stevensoniana
(Leidy 1870)
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Lichtig and Lucas 2015 | |||||||||
UCM loc. 78174 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Coryphodontidae
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Coryphodon sp.
(Owen 1845)
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original and current combination Lophiodon (Coryphodon) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus wortmani
Osborn 1902
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OK according to Redline 1997 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Lambdotherium popoagicum
Cope 1880
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Microsyopidae
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Cynodontomys knightensis
Gazin 1952
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= Microsyops latidens
Cope 1882
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Gunnell 1989 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Huerfano |
Coordinates: | 37.8° North, 105.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.2° North, 89.4° 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: | Lysitean |
Key time interval: | Lysitean | ||
Age range of interval: | 55.80000 - 50.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Huerfano VIIIa; UCM locality 78174 | ||
Database number: | 15654 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd |
Modifier: | P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2024-01-07 22:47:50 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2921. | P. Robinson. 1966. Fossil Mammalia of the Huerfano Formation, Eocene, of Colorado. Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 21:1-95 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
1730 | G. F. Gunnell. 1989. Evolutionary History of Microsyopoidea (Mammalia, ?Primates) and the Relationship Between Plesiadapiformes and Primates. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 27:1-157 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] | |
58369 | A. J. Lichtig and S. G. Lucas. 2015. Turtles of the Eocene Huerfano Formatoin, Raton Basin, Colorado. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 67:153-160 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |