Raw Hide Buttes (Lower Harrison): Harrisonian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Nannasfiber osmagnus
Xu 1996
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Xu 1996 | |||||||||
recombined as Pseudopalaeocastor osmagnus | ||||||||||
"Near Rawhide Buttes, Goshen County... lower Harrison formation" | ||||||||||
Euhapsis ellicottae
Martin 1987
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Xu 1996 | |||||||||
"Near Rawhide Buttes, Goshen County... lower Harrison formation" | ||||||||||
Palaeocastor magnus n. sp.
Romer and McCormack 1928
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synonym of Fossorcastor fossor | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Anchitherium agatensis
(Osborn 1918)
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Romer 1926 | |||||||||
original and current combination Kalobatippus agatensis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Promerycochoerus carrikeri
Peterson 1907
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1949 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Aletocyon multicuspus n. sp.
Romer and Sutton 1927
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Romer and Sutton 1927 | |||||||||
recombined as Phlaocyon multicuspus | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Niobrara |
Coordinates: | 43.0° North, 104.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.9° North, 99.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
Key time interval: | Harrisonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 24.80000 - 20.43000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Taxonomic list comments:said to be Converse Co., but records appear to predate change in county lines thought by Wang et al. 1999 to more likely be in an Upper Harrison equivalent level unknown: Stenomylus gracilis Frick 1937: "E. of Raw Hide Butte" Menoceras "cooki" Troxell 1921f: "near Rawhide Buttes, Wyoming" |
Metadata
Database number: | 17821 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2944. | A. S. Romer and J. T. McCormack. 1928. A large Palaeocastor from the Lower Miocene. The American Journal of Science, series 5 15(85):58-60 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
6771 | W. W. Korth. 2002. Comments on the systematics and classification of the beavers (Rodentia, Castoridae). Journal of Mammalian Evolution 8(4):279-296 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
2943 | A. S. Romer. 1926. A lower Miocene horse, Anchitherium agatense (Osborn). American Journal of Science 212(12):325-355 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
2945 | A. S. Romer and A. H. Sutton. 1927. A new arctoid carnivore from the Lower Miocene. The American Journal of Science, series 5 14(84):459-464 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] | |
3065 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1949. Promerycochoerinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 93(3):69-198 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
3779 | X. Xu. 1996. Castoridae. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 412-432 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |