Southeast of Lusk: Harrisonian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Megalictis ferox
Matthew 1907
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Hunt and Skolnick 1996 | |||||||||
| "4 mi E - 2 mi S Lusk ... Upper Harrison" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Menoceras arikarense
(Barbour 1906)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
| "2 mile district" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Phenacocoelus kayi n. sp.
Schultz and Falkenbach 1950
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| "Harrison formation, 4 mi. E. and 2 mi. S. of Lusk, Niobrara County, Wyoming" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Niobrara |
| Coordinates: | 43.0° North, 104.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.9° North, 99.4° 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; formational assignment of Hunt and Skolnick 1996 is admittedly not strongly supported | |||||
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 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17840 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1997-06-02 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2018-02-05 13:49:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-06-02 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 56847 | E. Douglass. 1907. Some new merycoidodonts. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4:99-109 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 1981 | R. M. Hunt, Jr. and R. Skolnick. 1996. The giant mustelid Megalictis from the Early Miocene carnivore dens at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska: earliest evidence of dimorphism in New World Mustelidae (Carnivora, Mammalia). Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 31(1):35-48 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 24878 | W. D. Matthew. 1908. Osteology of Blastomeryx and phylogeny of the American Cervidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24(27):535-562 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |