Northwestern End of Seamen Hills (Chadronian): Chadronian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Parictis gilpini
Clark and Guensburg 1972
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Clark and Guensburg 1972 | |||||||||
| Chadron Fm., NW end of "Seemen Hills" in Niobrara Co. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Hesperocyon gregarius
(Cope 1873)
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| 15, 20, and 50 ft below PWL | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merycoidodon culbertsoni n. sp.
(Leidy 1848)
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Merycoidodon culbertsonii | ||||||||||
| "Merycoidodon culbertsoni browni": NW end of Seamen Hills | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Niobrara |
| Coordinates: | 43.0° North, 104.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.4° North, 95.8° 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
| Local section: | WRGWY | Local bed: | 7 |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 16998 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1996-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 00:34:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1996-08-05 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6226. | X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 1238 | J. Clark and T. E. Guensburg. 1972. Arctoid genetic characters as related to the genus Parictis. Fieldiana 26(1):1-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 3069 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1968. The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part 1: Merycoidodontinae, Eporeodontinae, and Leptaucheniinae, Three Subfamilies Of Oreodonts, With an Appendix to the Revision Of The Merycoidodontidae, and Part 2. Summary and Conclusions Concerning the Merycoidodontidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139:1-498 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |