Pass Creek: Chadronian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Mesohippus sp.
Marsh 1875
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= Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Brontotheriidae indet.
(Marsh 1873)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Johnson |
| Coordinates: | 44.0° North, 106.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.5° North, 97.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Local age/stage: | Chadronian |
| Key time interval: | Chadronian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be Chadronian |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
| Database number: | 17004 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2541. | M. C. McKenna and J. D. Love. 1972. High-level Strata Containing Early Miocene Mammals on the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming. American Museum Novitates 2490:1-31 [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] |