Devil's Gate (UCMP V-77155): Hemingfordian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Merychippus primus (Osborn 1918)
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Camelidae
Protolabis cf. heterodontus (Cope 1874)
(6 measurements)
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866
Cosoryx (Paracosoryx) wilsoni Frick 1937
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Brachycrus sweetwaterensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1940
synonym of Brachycrus laticeps
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Tomarctus optatus Matthew 1924
recombined as Protomarctus optatus
confirmed by Wang et al. 1999
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788
Munthe 1979
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Natrona
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 107.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.0° North, 103.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary *Local age/stage:Hemingfordian
Key time interval:Hemingfordian
Age range of interval:20.43000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Arikaree
Lithology and environment
Environment:eolian indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Database number:18873
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-09-23 23:00:47
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2634.5% 16780J. Munthe. 1988. Miocene mammals of the Split Rock area, Granite Mountains basin, central Wyoming. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 126:1-136 [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]
64367 J. Munthe. 1979. Summary of Miocene vertebrate fossils of the Granite Mountains Basin, central Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 18(1):33-46 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]