Where: White Pine County, Nevada (39.0° N, 114.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 101.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: "Sheep Pass" Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• from "a bed of limestone about 25 to 30 cm thick"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• much of the collection is from a quarry "approximately 2 by 3 m" in area
Primary reference: R. J. Emry. 1990. Mammals of the Bridgerian (middle Eocene) Elderberry Canyon Local Fauna of eastern Nevada. In T. M. Bown and K. D. Rose (eds.), Dawn of the Age of Mammals in the Northern Part of the Rocky Mountain Interior, North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 243:187-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 16218: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Amphibia | |
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Mammalia | |
Apatemys bellus Marsh 1872 eutherian | |
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Isectolophus latidens Osborn et al. 1878 odd-toed ungulate
Helaletes nanus Marsh 1871 odd-toed ungulate | |
"Hyrachyus modestus" = Hyrachyus modestus, "Hyrachyus affinis" = Hyrachyus modestus
"Hyrachyus modestus" = Hyrachyus modestus Leidy 1870 odd-toed ungulate
"Hyrachyus affinis" = Hyrachyus modestus Leidy 1870 odd-toed ungulate | |
Antiacodon pygmaeus Cope 1872 even-toed ungulate | |
? Tetrapassalus cf. mckennai Simpson 1959 placental | |
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Viverravidae indet. Wortman and Matthew 1899 placental
Viverravus minutus Wortman 1901 placental | |
Pantolestes longicaudus Cope 1872 placental | |
Sciuravus sp. Marsh 1871 rodent | |
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Reithroparamys delicatissimus Leidy 1871 rodent
Reithroparamys cf. huerfanensis Wood 1962 rodent | |
Mattimys sp. Korth 1984 rodent | |
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Uintasorex sp. Matthew 1909 primate | |
Trogolemur myodes Matthew 1909 primate | |
Hyopsodus paulus Leidy 1870 condylarth | |
Aves | |
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Reptilia | |
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Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod |