Bates Hole Lower White River 1: Chadronian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Menodus sp. (Pomel 1848)
    = Brontotheriidae indet. Marsh 1873
Alroy 2002
Brontops sp. Marsh 1887
synonym of Megacerops
Mammalia - Leptomerycidae
Leptomeryx sp. Leidy 1853
"between L. yoderi and L. evansi in size"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Daphoenus lambei Russell 1934
Hunt 1996
"Shirley Basin" (township and range data also given) DUPLICATE REF 1975 or 1979
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Hesperocyon cf. gregarius (Cope 1873)
includes "H. cf. paterculus"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Natrona
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 107.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.8° North, 98.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Chadronian
Age range of interval:37.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:White River Member:lower
Local section:Bates Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:same unit dated by Zielinski and Naeser 1977 at 32.1 +/- 1.5 and 32.4 +/- 1.3 Ma using FT on zircon; first locality is only about 2-4 mi N of the fauna
Metadata
Database number:16896
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1803. E. N. Harshman. 1972. Geology and uranium deposits, Shirley Basin area, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 745:1-82 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1975 R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1996. Amphicyonidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. M. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 476-485 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]