Irish Spring: Chadronian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Prosciurus sp. (Matthew 1903)
original and current combination Sciurus (Prosciurus)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
? Protosciurus jeffersoni (Douglass 1902)
    = Douglassciurus jeffersoni Douglass 1902
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heliscomyidae
Heliscomys ostranderi Korth et al. 1991
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Namatomys sp. Black 1965
    = Eomyidae indet. Winge 1887
Alroy 2002
could be Metanoiamys
Aulolithomys sp. Black 1965
Paradjidaumo sp. Burke 1934
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumys sp. Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Cylindrodon sp. Douglass 1902
Pseudocylindrodon sp. Burke 1935
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus cf. temnodon Douglass 1902
Megalagus brachyodon (Matthew 1903)
Mammalia - Geolabididae
Centetodon sp. Marsh 1872
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Molossidae
Wallia sp. Storer 1984
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Brontotheriidae indet. (Marsh 1873)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Penetrigonias sagittatus (Russell 1982)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Toxotherium hunteri Wood 1961
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mesohippus sp. Marsh 1875
Mammalia - Entelodontidae
Archaeotherium sp. Leidy 1850
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Pseudoprotoceras sp. Cook 1934
Trigenicus profectus (Matthew 1903)
Mammalia - Leptomerycidae
"Leptomeryx" speciosus Lambe 1908
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Merycoidodon sp. Leidy 1848
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Groeberida
Herpetotherium sp. Cope 1873
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Saskatchewan
Coordinates: 49.8° North, 108.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.4° North, 99.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:more than 10 mi NE of the Anxiety Butte field area
Metadata
Database number:16979
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1997-04-12 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1997-04-12 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3318. J. E. Storer. 1996. Eocene-Oligocene faunas of the Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 240-261 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]