Hat Creek Store: Orellan, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Miniochoerus affinis (Leidy 1869)
Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
5 mi NE of Hat Creek Store; includes their "Platyochoerus platycephalus" from 5 mi NE of Hat Creek Store
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Hesperocyon gregarius (Cope 1873)
5 mi N and 1 mi E of Hat Creek Store, "above (?) P.W.L."
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Niobrara
Coordinates: 43.0° North, 104.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.2° North, 96.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
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
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:17118
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-10-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2006-09-13 00:34:39
Access level:the public Released:1995-10-18 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:

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]