Peaceful Valley Boy Scout Camp: Chadronian, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Megacerops kuwagatarhinus
Mader and Alexander 1995
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Elbert |
| Coordinates: | 39.4° North, 104.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.8° North, 96.1° 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 - 33.9 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:isolated find |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17005 | ||
| 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:
| 4185. | P. Ervin. 2001. Megacerops Kuwagatarhinus skull, from Chadronian Land Mammal Age, doubles this late Eocene species' geographic range. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):48A [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Uhen] |