Gypsum Room: Irvingtonian, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Spermophilus sp.
Cuvier 1825
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Tamias minimus
Bachman 1839
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= Neotamias cf. minimus
Bachman 1839
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Goodwin 1999 | |||||||||
| "Eutamias sp." | ||||||||||
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Marmota sp.
Frisch 1775
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= Marmota cf. flaviventris
Audubon and Bachman 1841
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Goodwin 1999 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Neotoma sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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| small | ||||||||||
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Neotoma cinerea
(Ord 1815)
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Lagurus curtatus
(Cope 1868)
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= Lemmiscus curtatus
Cope 1868
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Pitymys meadensis
Hibbard 1944
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= Terricola meadensis
Hibbard 1944
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Sylvilagus sp.
Gray 1867
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= Sylvilagus audubonii
Baird 1858
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Ramos 1999 | |||||||||
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Lepus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Lepus townsendii
Bachman 1839
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Ramos 1999 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Taxidea taxus
(Schreber 1778)
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Anderson 1996 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Spilogale putorius
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Anderson 1996 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Park |
| Coordinates: | 39.3° North, 105.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.3° North, 105.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.4 - 0.21 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
| Also known as: | CM loc. 1926 | ||
| Database number: | 20349 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1022. | A. D. Barnosky and D. L. Rasmussen. 1988. Middle Pleistocene arvicoline rodents and environmental change at 2900-meters elevation, Porcupine Cave, South Park, Colorado. Annals of Carnegie Museum 57(12):267-292 [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] | |
| 949 | E. Anderson. 1996. A preliminary report on the Carnivora of Porcupine Cave, Park County, Colorado. In K. M. Stewart, K. L. Seymour (eds.), Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironments of late Cenozoic mammals: Tributes to the career of C.S. (Rufus) Churcher 259-282 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 1686 | H. T. Goodwin. 1999. Sciurid rodents from Porcupine Cave, Park Co., Colorado: Irvingtonian diversity and faunal dynamics. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(3):47A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
| 2827 | C. N. Ramos. 1999. An Irvingtonian species of Brachylagus (mammalia: Lagomorpha) from Porcupine Cave, Park County, Colorado. Great Basin Naturalist 59(2):151-159 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |