Wood Mountain: Barstovian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon proavus (Cope 1873)
von Koenigswald et al. 2023
recombined as Miomastodon proavus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Sthenictis cf. dolichops Matthew 1924
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Bassariscus cf. parvus Hall 1927
    = Probassariscus cf. antiquus Matthew and Cook 1909
Alroy 2002
original and current combination Bassariscus antiquus
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Ticholeptus sp. Cope 1878
    = Ticholeptus zygomaticus Cope 1878
Stevens et al. 2023
Mammalia - Moschidae
Blastomeryx cf. elegans Matthew and Cook 1909
synonym of Blastomeryx gemmifer
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparionini indet. Quinn 1955
"Merychippus cf. isonesus or Hipparion sp."
Merychippus praecocidens n. sp. Russell 1933
Russell 1933
synonym of Acritohippus isonesus
NMC 8624
Archaeohippus cf. ultimus (Cope 1886)
Mammalia - Talpidae
Scalopoides sp. Wilson 1960
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Saskatchewan
Coordinates: 49.2° North, 106.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.8° North, 102.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Barstovian
Age range of interval:16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wood Mountain
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number:18794
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot, N. Famoso Enterer:J. Alroy, N. Famoso, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-05-21 23:04:16
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3295. J. E. Storer. 1971. The Wood Mountain fauna: an upper Miocene mammalian assemblage from southern Saskatchewan. 1(513) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
63495 L. S. Russell. 1933. A new species of Merychippus from the Miocene of Saskatchewan. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 47(1):11-11 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
86699 M. S. Stevens, D. R. Prothero, C. Cleaveland, E. Welsh, K. Marriott, T. Htun, D. Balassa, S. M. Olson, K. I. Watmore and D. Wheeler. 2023. Systematics of the Late Oligocene and Miocene Oreodonts (Merycoidodontidae: Artiodactyla). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 93:1-226 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
85881 W. von Koenigswald, C. Widga, and U. Göhlich. 2023. New mammutids (Proboscidea) from the Clarendonian and Hemphillian of Oregon – a survey of Mio-Pliocene mammutids from North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon 30:1-63 [N. Famoso/N. Famoso]