Raw Hide Creek (Upper Harrison): Harrisonian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merychyus arenarum
Cope 1884
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1947 | |||||||||
| thought to be "lower Marsland" equivalents | ||||||||||
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Merychyus minimus
Peterson 1907
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1947 | |||||||||
| thought to be "lower Marsland" equivalents | ||||||||||
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Phenacocoelus stouti
Schultz and Falkenbach 1950
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1950 | |||||||||
| recombined as Merycoides stouti | ||||||||||
| "Rawhide Creek"; implicitly "lower Marsland" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Aelurocyon brevifacies
Peterson 1907
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Riggs 1945 | |||||||||
| synonym of Megalictis simplicidens | ||||||||||
| "apparently... Harrison Beds"; however, this is Upper Harrison on north fork of Rawhide Creek according to Hunt and Skolnick 1996 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Entoptychidae
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Gregorymys riggsi n. sp.
Wood 1936
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| "Raw Hide Creek below OLO Ranch, Wyoming... one or two hundred feet below the Diceratherium Zone"; "Upper Harrison Fm." according to Wahlert and Souza 1988 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Goshen |
| Coordinates: | 42.0° North, 104.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.9° North, 99.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Harrisonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.10000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Hemingford | Formation: | Marsland | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: = Upper Harrison beds | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:apparently not the same as Raw Hide Buttes; both terms are used by Riggs 1945, and records are in different counties | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | J. M. Creek; Rawhide Creek | ||
| Database number: | 17824 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2018-02-05 13:50:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3723. | A. E. Wood. 1936. Geomyid rodents from the Middle Tertiary. American Museum Novitates 866 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 2911 | 5% 46120 | E. S. Riggs. 1945. Some early Miocene carnivores. Geological Series, Field Museum of Natural History 9(3):69-114 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Wertheim] |
| 3064 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1947. Merychyinae, a subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88(4):157-286 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 3066 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1950. Phenacocoelinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 95(3) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |