Flagstaff Rim I: Chadronian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
|
||||||||||
Titanotheriomys veterior
(Matthew 1903)
|
||||||||||
original and current combination Ischyromys veterior | ||||||||||
Paramys compressidens
Peterson 1919
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Aplodontidae
|
||||||||||
Prosciurus cf. vetustus
(Matthew 1903)
|
||||||||||
original and current combination Sciurus (Prosciurus) vetustus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
|
||||||||||
Douglassciurus jeffersoni
(Douglass 1902)
|
Emry and Korth 2012 | |||||||||
Dry Hole Quarry; misspelled as "Douglassiurus jeffersoni" | ||||||||||
Sciuridae indet.
Gray 1821
|
||||||||||
small: said to be new | ||||||||||
= Hesperopetes thoringtoni n. sp.
Emry and Korth 2007
|
Emry and Korth 2007 | |||||||||
"... from the locality called “Low Red Pocket” in Little Lone Tree Gulch" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heliscomyidae
|
||||||||||
Heliscomys ostranderi
Korth et al. 1991
|
Korth et al. 1991 | |||||||||
Dry Hole Quarry | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
|
||||||||||
Griphomys sp.
Wilson 1940
|
Emry and Korth 2012 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Eomyidae
|
||||||||||
Metanoiamys paradoxus
Emry and Korth 2012
|
Emry and Korth 2012 | |||||||||
Dry Hole Quarry; possibly type locality | ||||||||||
Adjidaumo cf. minimus
(Matthew 1903)
|
||||||||||
= Adjidaumo minimus
Matthew 1903
|
Emry and Korth 2012 | |||||||||
Dry Hole Quarry | ||||||||||
Adjidaumo cf. craigi
Storer 1987
|
Emry and Korth 2012 | |||||||||
Low Red Quarry | ||||||||||
Yoderimys stewarti
(Russell 1972)
|
||||||||||
described by Emry and Korth 1993; from Dry Hole Quarry and Low Red Quarry (6 measurements) | ||||||||||
Litoyoderimys auogoleus
Emry and Korth 1993
|
Emry and Korth 1993 | |||||||||
"Yoderimys" cf. lustrorum; from Dry Hole Quarry | ||||||||||
Aulolithomys vexilliames
Korth and Emry 1997
|
Emry and Korth 2012 | |||||||||
Dry Hole Quarry | ||||||||||
Cristadjidaumo skinneri n. sp.
Emry and Korth 2012
|
Emry and Korth 2012 | |||||||||
Dry Hole Quarry | ||||||||||
Namatomys erythrus n. sp.
Emry and Korth 2012
|
Emry and Korth 2012 | |||||||||
Low Red Quarry; not clear if this is a reidentification of N. lloydi, or if they are both present in this collection | ||||||||||
Namatomys lloydi
Black 1965
|
||||||||||
this is the "true" Namatomys" | ||||||||||
Protadjidaumo burkei
Russell 1954
|
||||||||||
= Adjidaumo ? burkei
Russell 1954
|
Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
= Paradjidaumo hansonorum
Russell 1972
|
Emry and Korth 2013 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cylindrodontidae
|
||||||||||
Cylindrodon fontis
Douglass 1902
|
||||||||||
= Cylindrodon natronensis
Emry and Korth 1996
|
Emry and Korth 1996 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
|
||||||||||
Palaeolagus primus n. sp.
Emry and Gawne 1986
|
||||||||||
from Dry Hole Quarry: see Emry and Gawne 1986 (4 measurements) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Geolabididae
|
||||||||||
Centetodon chadronensis
Lillegraven et al. 1981
|
||||||||||
Low Red Pocket: Asher et al. 2005 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Oligoryctidae
|
||||||||||
Apternodus altitalonidus
Clark 1936
|
||||||||||
recombined as Oligoryctes altitalonidus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
|
||||||||||
Brontotheriidae indet.
(Marsh 1873)
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
|
||||||||||
Caenopus dakotensis
Peterson 1920
|
||||||||||
recombined as Penetrigonias dakotensis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Hyracodontidae
|
||||||||||
Hyracodon cf. priscidens
Lambe 1905
|
||||||||||
at Dry Hole Quarry: Prothero 1996e | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
|
||||||||||
Colodon sp.
Marsh 1890
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
|
||||||||||
Poebrotherium sp.
Leidy 1847
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Entelodontidae
|
||||||||||
Brachyhyops sp.
Colbert 1937
|
||||||||||
(2 measurements) | ||||||||||
= Brachyhyops viensis
Russell 1980
|
Lucas and Emry 2004 | |||||||||
meter level not stated | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Leptochoeridae
|
||||||||||
Stibarus sp.
Cope 1873
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Oromerycidae
|
||||||||||
Eotylopus reedi
Matthew 1910
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
|
||||||||||
Leptotragulus profectus
Matthew 1903
|
||||||||||
recombined as Trigenicus profectus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Agriochoeridae
|
||||||||||
Agriochoerus sp.
Leidy 1850
|
||||||||||
said to be new | ||||||||||
Agriochoerus maximus
Douglass 1902
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Hypisodontidae
|
||||||||||
Hypisodus sp.
Cope 1873
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Praetragulidae
|
||||||||||
Parvitragulus priscus
Emry 1978
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Leptomerycidae
|
||||||||||
Leptomeryx yoderi
Schlaikjer 1935
|
||||||||||
confirmed by Heaton and Emry 1996 | ||||||||||
Pseudoprotoceras semicinctus
(Cope 1889)
|
||||||||||
original and current combination Leptomeryx semicinctus | ||||||||||
(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
|
||||||||||
Merycoidodon lewisi
Clark and Beerbower 1967
|
||||||||||
= Merycoidodon cf. presidioensis
Stevens and Stevens 1996
|
Stevens and Stevens 1996 | |||||||||
Dry Hole Quarry; said to "possibly" be presidioensis | ||||||||||
Bathygenys sp.
Douglass 1902
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Creodonta
|
||||||||||
Hemipsalodon sp.
Cope 1885
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Creodonta
- Hyaenodontidae
|
||||||||||
Hyaenodon venturae
Mellett 1977
|
Lavrov and Emry 1998 | |||||||||
Dry Hole Quarry (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Nimravidae
|
||||||||||
? Nimravidae indet.
Cope 1880
|
||||||||||
"? paleofelid"; from 60' level, see Bryant 1996 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
|
||||||||||
Daphoenocyon sp.
Hough 1948
|
||||||||||
= Brachyrhynchocyon sp.
Scott and Jepsen 1936
|
Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
discussed by Hunt 1996 and said to be at Dry Hole Quarry | ||||||||||
Daphoenictis sp.
Hunt 1974
|
||||||||||
at Dry Hole Quarry: Hunt 1998b | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
|
||||||||||
Subparictis parvus
(Clark and Beerbower 1967)
|
||||||||||
original and current combination Parictis parvus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
|
||||||||||
Hesperocyon paterculus
(Matthew 1903)
|
||||||||||
= Hesperocyon sp.
Scott 1890
|
Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
not documented as H. gregarius by Wang 1994 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Apatemyidae
|
||||||||||
Sinclairella sp.
Jepsen 1934
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Didelphimorphia
- Didelphidae
|
||||||||||
Peratherium sp.
Aymard 1850
|
||||||||||
= Didelphidae indet.
Gray 1821
|
Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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: | 37.20000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | White River | ||
Local section: | WRGWY | Local bed: | 1 |
Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:0-25 m |
Metadata
Also known as: | Dry Hole Quarry (21.3 m); Low Red Quarry (18.3 m) | ||
Database number: | 16960 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot, P. Holroyd |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-04-24 21:14:31 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1442. | R. J. Emry. 1992. Mammalian Range Zones in the Chadronian White River Formation at Flagstaff Rim, Wyoming. In D. R. Prothero, W. A. Berggren (eds.), Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution 106-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
24143 | R. J. Asher, R. J. Emry, and M. C. McKenna. 2005. New material of Centetodon (Mammalia, Lipotyphla) and the importance of (missing) DNA sequences in systematic paleontology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4):911-923 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
1034 | J. A. Baskin and R. H. Tedford. 1996. Small Arctoid and Feliform Carnivorans. In D. R. Prothero and R. M. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 486-497 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
1450 | R. J. Emry and W. W. Korth. 1993. Evolution in Yoderimyinae (Eomyidae: Rodentia), with New Material from the White River Formation (Chadronian) at Flagstaff Rim, Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 67(6) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
1451 | R. J. Emry and W. W. Korth. 1996. Cylindrodontidae. In D. R. Prothero, R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
57333 | R. J. Emry and W. W. Korth. 2007. A new genus of squirrel (Rodentia, Sciuridae) from the mid-Cenozoic of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):693-698 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
57381 | R. J. Emry and W. W. Korth. 2012. Early Chadronian (late Eocene) rodents from the Flagstaff Rim area, central Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(2):419-432 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
87100 | R. J. Emry and W. W. Korth. 2013. The eomyid rodent Paradjidaumo Burke from the late Eocene White River Formation, Flagstaff Rim area, Wyoming. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 126(2):178-186 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
2153 | W. W. Korth, J. H. Wahlert, and R. J. Emry. 1991. A New Species of Heliscomys and Recognition of the Family Heliscomyidae (Geomyoidea: Rodentia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(2):247-256 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
2211 | A. V. Lavrov and R. J. Emry. 1998. Hyaenodon venturae (Hyaenodontidae, Creodonta, Mammalia) from the early Chadronian (latest Eocene) of Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 72(4):752-757 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
19699 | S. G. Lucas and R. J. Emry. 2004. The entelodont Brachyhyops (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Upper Eocene of Flagstaff Rim, Wyoming. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 26:97-100 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
6270 | M. S. Stevens and J. B. Stevens. 1996. Merycoidodontinae and Miniochoerinae. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 498-573 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |