Merycochoerus Butte: Early/Lower Hemingfordian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Daphoenodon sp.
Peterson 1909
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| "advanced species" | ||||||||||
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= Daphoenodon (Borocyon) niobrarensis
Loomis 1936
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Hunt 2009 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Protolabis sp.
Cope 1876
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| UNSM 44816 | ||||||||||
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Michenia sp.
Frick and Taylor 1971
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| UNSM 44817, 44818 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merycochoerus magnus
Loomis 1924
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Merychyus sp.
Leidy 1858
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| UNSM 44819 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Goshen |
| Coordinates: | 42.2° North, 104.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.0° North, 100.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Hemingfordian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Carpenter Ranch |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | medium sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | gravel |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 167862 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 17886 | ||
| Created: | 2015-04-04 21:19:03 | Last modified: | 2015-04-04 21:19:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-04-04 21:19:03 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54870. | R. M. Hunt, Jr. 2005. An Early Miocene Dome-Skulled Chalicothere from the ‘‘Arikaree’’ Conglomerates of Darton: Calibrating the Ages of High Plains Paleovalleys Against Rocky Mountain Tectonism. American Museum Novitates 7212:1-45 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 54871 | R. M. Hunt, Jr. 2009. Long-Legged Pursuit Carnivorans (Amphicyonidae, Daphoeninae) From the Early Miocene of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 318:1-95 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |