Yost Farm: Barstovian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Monosaulax cf. pansus (Cope 1874)
Voorhies 1990
    = Eucastor cf. tortus Leidy 1858
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mylagaulus cf. laevis Matthew 1902
Korth 2000
    = Pterogaulus sp. Korth 2000
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus cf. vetus (Kellogg 1910)
    = Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917
Alroy 2002
"H. cf. gidleyi" of White 1988
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Russellagus vonhofi Storer 1970
Mammalia - Talpidae
Scalopoides sp. Wilson 1960
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops sp. Owen 1845
    = Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hypohippus cf. osborni Gidley 1907
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
    = Neohipparion sp. Gidley 1903
Alroy 2002
Merychippus isonesus (Cope 1889)
    = Acritohippus cf. isonesus Cope 1889
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
Mammalia - Camelidae
Procamelus sp. Leidy 1858
    = Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Moschidae
Blastomeryx cf. elegans Matthew and Cook 1909
synonym of Blastomeryx gemmifer
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Cranioceras skinneri Frick 1937
    = Procranioceras cf. skinneri Frick 1937
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Submeryceros minor (Frick 1937)
recombined as Merycodus minor
Merycodus necatus Leidy 1854
Cosoryx alticornis Frick 1937
    = Paracosoryx cf. alticornis Frick 1937
Alroy 2002
may be Ramoceros, see Voorhies 1983
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Ticholeptus sp. Cope 1878
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus cf. aeluroides Macdonald 1954
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Miomustela cf. madisonae (Douglass 1929)
Plionictis cf. ogygia (Matthew 1901)
Sthenictis cf. dolichops Matthew 1924
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursavus sp. Schlosser 1899
Hunt 1998
    = Ursavus cf. primaevus Gaillard 1899
Alroy 2002
may also include "Hemicyon sp."
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Leptocyon cf. vafer (Leidy 1858)
Aelurodon saevus (Leidy 1858)
    = Epicyon cf. saevus Leidy 1858
Alroy 2002
Tomarctus hippophaga (Matthew and Cook 1909)
"hippophagus"
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835
Holman 1971
A peripheral, NMC 8985 (Fig. 2); a partial peripheral, NMC 8991; a pygal, NMC 8985 (Fig. 2); and a dermal ossicle of the forearm, NMC 8991 (Fig. 2), were collected by Wann Langston, Jr., and L. S. Russell in 1955.
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
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Barstovian
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 13.60000 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
Also known as:ROM 1; SMNH 17, 29<
Database number:18797
Authorizer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos Enterer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-05-21 23:05:06
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]
63093 J.A. Holman. 1971. Climatic Significanceof Giant Tortoises from the Wood Mountain Formation (Upper Miocene) of Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 8:1148-1151 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
1976 R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Ursidae. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 1:174-195 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2143 W. W. Korth. 2000. Review of Miocene (Hemingfordian to Clarendonian) mylagaulid rodents (Mammalia) from Nebraska. Annals of Carnegie Museum 69(4):227-280 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3503 M. R. Voorhies. 1990. Vertebrate paleontology of the proposed Norden Reservoir Area, Brown, Cherry and Keya Paha counties, Nebraska. Technical Report, Division of Archeological Research, Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska 82-09 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]