Spring Draw (Orellan): Orellan, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Hesperocyon gregarius (Cope 1873)
"Upper Spring Draw, Indian Creek area, Hat Creek Basin... Orellan"; "Piper Ranch, Spring Draw" - 15, 35, and 75 ft above PWL; "Spring Draw, 1.5 mi W of Ant Hill" 70 ft above PWL
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Platyochoerus platycephalus (Thorpe 1921)
Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
synonym of Miniochoerus affinis
(synonym of M. affinis): Brule Zone A M. ("Stenopsochoerus") chadronensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1956; includes their "S. douglasensis"; sample is apparently stratigraphically mixed because affinis and chadronensis form a chronocline elsewhere
Merycoidodon culbertsoni (Leidy 1848)
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
original and current combination Merycoidodon culbertsonii
includes their "M. culbertsoni osborni"; "Paramerycoidodon georgei" "Otionohyus wardi"; and "Genetochoerus periculorum" - all from Brule Zone A
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 - 31.80000 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:17193
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:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
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]