Huerfano XI: Lysitean, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Echmatemys ? stevensoniana (Leidy 1870)
Lichtig and Lucas 2015
UCM loc. 78174
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. (Owen 1845)
original and current combination Lophiodon (Coryphodon)
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus wortmani Osborn 1902
OK according to Redline 1997
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Lambdotherium popoagicum Cope 1880
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Cynodontomys knightensis Gazin 1952
    = Microsyops latidens Cope 1882
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
Formation:Huerfano
Local section:Huerf Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Lysitean
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]