UCMP V-5350: Wasatchian, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus sp.
Leidy 1870
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hyracotherium sp.
Owen 1841
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= Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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= Arenahippus grangeri
Gingerich 1989
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Froehlich 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Sifrhippus grangeri | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Rodentia indet.
Bowdich 1821
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| "Paramys" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Paromomyidae
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Phenacolemur jepseni
Simpson 1955
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= cf. Simpsonlemur jepseni
Simpson 1955
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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Pelycodus mckennai
Gingerich and Simons 1977
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= Cantius mckennai
Gingerich and Simons 1977
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Gingerich and Simons 1977 | |||||||||
| "P. ralstoni" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Moffat |
| Coordinates: | 40.6° North, 108.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.4° North, 91.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Wasatchian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wasatch |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 15855 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-07-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-07-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2528. | M. C. McKenna. 1960. Fossil Mammalia from the early Wasatchian Four Mile fauna, Eocene of northwest Colorado. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 37(1):1-130 [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] | |
| 53105 | D. J. Froehlich. 2002. Quo vadis Eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134:141-256 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 1675 | P. D. Gingerich and E. L. Simons. 1977. Systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of early Eocene Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) in North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 24(22):245-279 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |