Douglas Mountain: Miocene, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Serridentinus fricki n. sp.
Peterson 1928
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synonym of Gomphotherium obscurum | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Aphelops ceratorhinus
Douglass 1903
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synonym of Peraceras profectum | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Merycodus sp.
Leidy 1854
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= Merycodontinae indet.
Matthew 1904
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
associated with "Serridentinus fricki" | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Moffat |
Coordinates: | 40.6° North, 108.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 41.2° North, 105.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Miocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Browns Park | Member: | Weller Sandstone |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:type area of Browns Park Fm. while this name is not applied by Peterson, Honey and Izett 1988 use it to distinguish his fauna from theirs type of "Bassariscops willistoni" is from 1 mi SW of Sunbeam, which is a different locality according to Honey and Izett 1988; referred specimen is actually Cynarctoides lemur: Wang et al. 1999 "Merycoidodontidae indet." Honey and Izett 1988: "Ticholeptus?" from Emma (Gilsonite) Mine "near the bluff of the White River canyon in Utah" "camelid" presumably the "camelid closely allied to Stenomylus" that is actually an antilocaprine: Frick and Taylor 1968 presumed chalicothere is actually a "Teleodus" from the Duchesne River Fm. near Vernal, UT: Skinner 1968 |
Metadata
Database number: | 18874 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:43 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information