Sand Gulch: Harrisonian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Stenomylus gracilis
Peterson 1907
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Frick and Taylor 1968 | |||||||||
| "Marsland"; "high" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Phenacocoelus stouti
Schultz and Falkenbach 1950
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1950 | |||||||||
| recombined as Merycoides stouti | ||||||||||
| "Sand Gulch (near Wolf Ranch), Goshen County"; implicitly "lower Marsland" | ||||||||||
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Merychyus minimus
Peterson 1907
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1947 | |||||||||
| middle level | ||||||||||
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Merychyus arenarum
Cope 1884
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1947 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Menoceras arikarense
(Barbour 1906)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Desmocyon thomsoni
(Matthew 1907)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
| "high in section" and "south end" | ||||||||||
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Phlaocyon minor
(Matthew 1907)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Entoptychidae
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Gregorymys riggsi
Wood 1936
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| 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: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:not the same as Eighteen Mile District (see) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17835 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-06-07 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2018-02-05 13:50:35 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-06-07 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3530. | J. H. Wahlert and R. A. Souza. 1988. Skull morphology of Gregorymys and relationships of the Entoptychinae (Rodentia, Geomyidae). American Museum Novitates 2922:1-13 [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] | |
| 1549 | C. Frick and B. E. Taylor. 1968. A Generic Review of the Stenomyline Camels. American Museum Novitates 2353:1-51 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/B. Beatty] | |
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 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] | |
| 3558 | X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |