North Ridge Highway 85: Harrisonian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diceratherium annectens (Marsh 1873)
Prothero 2005
"North Ridge, 0.5 mile west of Highway 85"
Diceratherium armatum Marsh 1875
Prothero 2005
"North Ridge locality"
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Promerycochoerus carrikeri Peterson 1907
Schultz and Falkenbach 1949
N of Lusk near US 85
Promerycochoerus barbouri Schultz and Falkenbach 1949
Schultz and Falkenbach 1949
synonym of Promerycochoerus carrikeri
North Ridge 1/2 mi W of US 85
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Desmocyon thomsoni (Matthew 1907)
Wang et al. 1999
Paraenhydrocyon josephi (Cope 1881)
North Ridge, 10 mi N of Lusk
Paraenhydrocyon wallovianus (Cope 1881)
North Ridge, 0.5 mi W of Highway 85, Harrison Fm.
Enhydrocyon crassidens Matthew 1907
North Ridge Highway 85, 10 mi N of Lusk
Leptocyon gregorii (Matthew 1907)
Tedford et al. 2009
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Niobrara
Coordinates: 43.0° North, 104.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.9° North, 99.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4-5
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Harrisonian
Age range of interval:23.10000 - 18.50000 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:17815
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
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]
51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
3065 C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1949. Promerycochoerinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 93(3):69-198 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
52058 R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]
3558 X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]