Also known as Apodock Gulch
Where: Huerfano County, Colorado (37.8° N, 105.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 89.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Huerfano Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• "This locality is probably high in Lower faunal zone."
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. Robinson. 1966. Fossil Mammalia of the Huerfano Formation, Eocene, of Colorado. Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 21:1-95 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 15651: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Paramys copei Loomis 1907 rodent | |
Loveina zephyri Simpson 1940 tarsier | |
Hapalodectes cf. leptognathus1 Osborn and Wortman 1892 condylarth from "Apadock Gulch" in the Huerfano Fm.; "H. sp." of Stucky 1984c from "Apodoch Gulch"; some chance this is from Huerfano VI because "Apodock Gulch" is an inaccurate field term and Apodaca Gulch is within Huerfano VI
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"Eotitanops borealis" = Eotitanops borealis Cope 1880 brontothere | |
Viverravus gracilis Marsh 1872 placental |