Northwest of Ouray: Uintan, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Leptotomus mytonensis n. sp.
Wood 1962
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= Mytonomys mytonensis
Wood 1962
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| from "Myton member" 1 mi NW of junction of Green and Duchesne Rivers, Uintah Co.; said by Prothero 1996a to be from Myton Pocket | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Uintah |
| Coordinates: | 40.2° North, 109.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.0° North, 98.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Uintan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 46.20000 - 39.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Taxonomic list comments:placement low in member is tentative and based only on proximity to White River Pocket | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 16609 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1998-09-21 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1998-09-21 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3731. | A. E. Wood. 1962. The Early Tertiary Rodents of the Family Paramyidae. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 52(1):3-261 [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] |