Southwestern 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., SW side 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 ft below PWL | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merycoidodon culbertsoni
(Leidy 1848)
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Merycoidodon culbertsonii | ||||||||||
| "Merycoidodon culbertsoni browni": SW end of Seamen Hills | ||||||||||
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Stenopsochoerus chadronensis n. sp.
Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 | |||||||||
| recombined as Miniochoerus chadronensis | ||||||||||
| SW end of Seamen Hills; includes their "S. douglasensis" from SW end of Seamen Hills and type of "S. reideri" from 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 |
| Taxonomic list comments:"Miniochoerus forsythae" Stevens and Stevens 1996: new specimens not discussed by Schultz and Falkenbach; 15-30' below "upper purplish white" layer in Seamen Hills; no further data given | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17024 | ||
| 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:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 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] | |
| 3068 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1956. Miniochoerinae and Oreonetinae two new subfamilies of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 109(4):373-482 [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] |