Anxiety Butte (Orellan): Orellan, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumys elegans Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus haydeni Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diceratherium sp. Marsh 1875
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
? Toxotherium sp. Wood 1961
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Colodon sp. Marsh 1890
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mesohippus bairdi (Leidy 1850)
Miohippus sp. Marsh 1874
Mammalia - Camelidae
Poebrotherium sp. Leidy 1847
Mammalia - Entelodontidae
Archaeotherium mortoni Leidy 1850
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Elomeryx sp. Marsh 1894
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Protoceras sp. Marsh 1891
Mammalia - Leptomerycidae
Leptomeryx evansi Leidy 1853
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Saskatchewan
Coordinates: 49.7° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.1° North, 100.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Orellan
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 33.30000 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:newly collected material from four localities
Metadata
Database number:17055
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]