Titanothere Section (Hemingfordian) (Miocene of Canada)

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.7° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 104.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: J. E. Storer and H. N. Bryant. 1997. Tertiary mammal faunas of the Cypress Hills Formation, southwestern Saskatchewan. Canadian Paleontology Conference Field Trip Guidebook 6:112-122 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 18002: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1999

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Taxonomic list

• not the same as Anxiety Butte (see)
list is informal and possibly incomplete
name is likely to be changed when fauna is formally described
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Borophaginae indet. Simpson 1945 bone-crushing dog
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
Miohippus sp. Marsh 1874 anchitheriine horse
Archaeohippus stenolophus Lambe 1905 anchitheriine horse
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Arretotherium sp. Douglass 1902 anthracothere
 Artiodactyla - Entelodontidae
Entelodontidae indet. Lydekker 1883 even-toed ungulate
"perhaps related to... Dinohyus"
 Artiodactyla - Moschidae
Blastomerycinae indet. Frick 1937 musk deer
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
Barbouromeryx sp. Frick 1937 ruminant
Aletomeryx sp. Lull 1920 ruminant
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Archaeolagus sp. Dice 1917 rabbit
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Monosaulax sp. Stirton 1935 beaver