Anxiety Butte (SMNH 72F10-0060): Hemingfordian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Parahippus cf. cognatus (Leidy 1858)
    = Equidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
Archaeohippus stenolophus (Lambe 1905)
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Merycochoerus cf. proprius Leidy 1858
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Arretotherium cf. fricki Macdonald and Schultz 1956
Mammalia - Camelidae
Michenia sp. Frick and Taylor 1971
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Saskatchewan
Coordinates: 49.6° North, 108.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.4° North, 104.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Hemingfordian
Key time interval: Hemingfordian
Age range of interval: 18.5 - 16.3 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cypress Hills
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Hemingfordian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:17870
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-06-07 00:00:00 Last modified:2006-09-13 00:25:19
Access level:the public Released:1994-06-07 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3319. J. E. Storer and H. N. Bryant. 1993. Biostratigraphy of the Cypress Hills Formation (Eocene to Miocene), Saskatchewan: equid types (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) and associated faunal assemblages. Journal of Paleontology 67(4):660-669 [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]