Swift Current Creek Conglomeratic Exposure: Late Uintan, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Oromerycidae
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Oromerycidae indet.
Gazin 1955
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Storer 1984 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Leptoreodon sp.
Wortman 1898
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Storer 1984 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Saskatchewan |
| Coordinates: | 50.2° North, 107.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.8° North, 94.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 792 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Eocene | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Uintan |
| Key time interval: | Late Uintan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 46.2 - 39.7 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cypress Hills |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | conglomerate |
| Lithology description: formation is "sands, gravels, and conglomerates and sandstones with calcareous cement" and material is from "a conglomeratic exposure" | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: environment was "braided streams" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated minor elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 16627 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-09-27 18:44:13 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3305. | 5% 26080 | J. E. Storer. 1984. Mammals of the Swift Current Creek Local Fauna (Eocene: Uintan), Saskatchewan. Natural History Contributions, Museum of Natural History, Regina 7:1-158 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 3304 | J. E. Storer. 1984. Fossil mammals of the Southfork Local Fauna (early Chadronian) of Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 21:1400-1405 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |