Vermillion Creek: Wasatchian, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Homacodontidae
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Paramys bicuspis
Loomis 1907
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= Paramys copei
Loomis 1907
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| assigned to P. copei copei by Wood 1962 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Insectivora
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Insectivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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| "possibly Diacodon" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Moffat |
| Coordinates: | 40.6° North, 108.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.5° North, 81.7° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Wasatchian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 54.9 - 50.5 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wasatch | Member: | Niland Tongue |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:close to the East Hiawatha locality (see) center sec 32 T 12 N R 101 W list repeated by Roehler 1987, who gives the correct spelling Lysitean? |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Vermilion Creek | ||
| Database number: | 15885 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1998-09-21 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1998-09-21 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1618. | C. L. Gazin. 1965. Early Eocene mammalian faunas and their environment in the vicinity of the Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 19:171-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |