UCMP V-5423: Wasatchian, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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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" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Microsyopidae
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Cynodontomys alfi
McKenna 1960
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= Microsyops angustidens
Matthew 1915
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Gunnell 1985 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Paramys sp.
Leidy 1871
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| forms "A" and "B" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Viverravidae
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Viverravus acutus
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Palaeotheriidae
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Hyracotherium angustidens
(Cope 1875)
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= Hyracotherium sp.
Owen 1841
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Geolabididae
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Didelphodus ventanus
White 1952
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= Didelphodus altidens
Marsh 1872
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Centetodon altidens | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Macroscelidea
- Apheliscidae
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Apheliscus sp.
Cope 1875
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Rose 1981 | |||||||||
| : "A. nitidus" of McKenna | ||||||||||
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Haplomylus speirianus
(Cope 1880)
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Mammalia
- Macroscelidea
- Amphilemuridae
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Entomolestes nitens
Matthew 1918
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= cf. Macrocranion nitens
Matthew 1918
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus loomisi
McKenna 1960
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Gingerich 1989 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Apatemyidae
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Apatemys sp.
Marsh 1872
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= Apatemyidae indet.
Matthew 1909
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Coryphodontidae
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Coryphodon sp.
(Owen 1845)
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| original and current combination Lophiodon (Coryphodon) | ||||||||||
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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
| Collection size: | 104 specimens |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
| Taxonomic list comments:presumably = Timberlake Creek of Gunnell 1989 and Polly 1993 "Hyopsodus miticulus" (= H. simplex) from Timberlake Creek listed by Gunnell 1989, but seems unlikely - see Gingerich 1989 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 15865 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 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] | |
| 1657 | P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 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] | |
| 1728 | G. F. Gunnell. 1985. Systematics of Early Eocene Microsyopinae (Mammalia, Primates) in the Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(2):51-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 2953 | K. D. Rose. 1981. The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 26:1-197 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] |