Also known as Garcia Canyon; Apodaca Gulch; UCM locality 77040
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)
• "Huerfano facies"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Wortman, Granger, OIsen
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 15650: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd, Terri Cleary and Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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•"Most of Wortman's collection of 1897 came from here and probably from unit 13 of measured section; unit 13 has consistently produced good specimens and matches the description of the best bone-bearing layer given by Wortman to Osborn. Granger and Olsen also made good collections here."
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Paramys excavatus Loomis 1907 rodent "Paramys excavatus gardneri": falsely said by Korth 1984 not to have been reported by Robinson
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Loveina zephyri Simpson 1940 tarsier | |
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"Lambdotherium popoagicum" = Lambdotherium popoagicum, "Lambdotherium magnum n. sp." = Lambdotherium popoagicum7, "Lambdotherium priscum" = Lambdotherium popoagicum7
"Lambdotherium popoagicum" = Lambdotherium popoagicum Cope 1880 brontothere | |
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Phenacodus vortmani Cope 1880 condylarth | |
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Didymictis altidens Cope 1880 placental
Viverravus gracilis Marsh 1872 placental | |
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Esthonyx acutidens Cope 1881 tillodont | |
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"Paraglyptosaurus princeps" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris11
"Paraglyptosaurus princeps" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris11 Marsh 1871 squamates AMNH 1619, left dentary and two right maxillae and tooth fragment
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