Also known as Badwater Locality 19
Where: Natrona County, Wyoming (43.3° N, 107.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 99.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)
• from a single siltstone lends within an unnamed Oligocene formation overlying the Hendry Ranch Mbr.
•Orellan according to Korth 1981, Lillegraven et al. 1981, Krishtalka and Stucky 1983b, Korth 1994; Whitneyan according to Setoguchi and Emry et al. 1987
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; tuffaceous, brown siltstone and lenticular, calcareous siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• "More than fifteen hundred identifiable specimens... two tons of matrix were washed"
Primary reference: T. Setoguchi. 1978. Paleontology and geology of the Badwater Creek area, central Wyoming. Part 16. The Cedar Ridge local fauna (late Oligocene). Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 9:1-61 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Head]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 17318: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Clint Boyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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Mammalia | |
"Nanodelphys hunti" = Nanodelphys huntii1
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Paradjidaumo hypsodus Setoguchi 1978 rodent
Metadjidaumo hendryi n. sp. Setoguchi 1978 rodent
"Namatomys" sp.4 Black 1965 rodent this probably really is Namatomys, according to Chiment and Korth 1996
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Pelycomys placidus, "Prosciurus relictus" = Altasciurus relictus
Pelycomys placidus Galbreath 1953 mountain beaver
"Prosciurus relictus" = Altasciurus relictus Cope 1873 mountain beaver | |
Eumys elegans Leidy 1856 rodent | |
Palaeolagus burkei Schlaikjer 1935 rabbit | |
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Miohippus sp. Marsh 1874 anchitheriine horse | |
Hyracodontidae indet. Cope 1879 odd-toed ungulate | |
Leptomeryx evansi Leidy 1853 ruminant | |
Hypisodus minimus Cope 1873 ruminant | |
Domnina cf. gradata Cope 1873 shrew | |
Micropternodus sp. Matthew 1903 placental | |
? Oligoscalops sp. Reed 1961 placental
Proscalops miocaenus Matthew 1901 placental | |
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Ankylodon cf. annectens Patterson and McGrew 1937 elephant shrew | |
Amphibia | |
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