Pine Bluffs: Orellan, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Nimravidae
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Dinictis paucidens
Riggs 1896
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= Dinictis felina
Leidy 1854
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| "near Pine Bluffs" | ||||||||||
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Hoplophoneus latidens n. sp.
Thorpe 1920
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= Hoplophoneus primaevus
Leidy and Owen 1851
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| "near Pine Bluffs" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Laramie |
| Coordinates: | 41.3° North, 105.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.6° North, 97.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Orellan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 33.90000 - 31.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Taxonomic list comments:no indication of age or stratigraphy, and Galbreath 1953 appears to be unaware of these specimens said by Thorpe 1920 to be in Colorado, but there is no such town in Colorado, whereas Pine Bluffs, Wyoming is close to the triple junction of Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado "Miniochoerus affinis" Schultz and Falkenbach 1956: 7 mi S of Pine Bluffs, Laramie Co. WY | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17157 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3406. | M. R. Thorpe. 1920. New species of Oligocene (White River) Felidae. American Journal of Science 50(297):207-224 [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] |