Skyline (TMM 41580) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.2° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 95.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bandera Mesa Member (Devil's Graveyard Formation), Duchesnean (40.4 - 37.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: J. A. Wilson and M. S. Stevens. 1986. Fossil vertebrates from the latest Eocene, Skyline channels, Trans-Pecos Texas. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming Special Paper 3:221-235 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 16856: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994, edited by Clint Boyd

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Taxonomic list

• overlies Middle Mbr. and underlies Dogie Creek; at same level as Cotter Channels
Mammalia
 Acreodi -
Simidectes magnus Peterson 1919 mesonychian
described by Gustafson 1979
 Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Amynodontopsis bodei Stock 1933 odd-toed ungulate
see Wilson and Schiebout 1981;
 Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
? Hyracodon sp. Leidy 1856 odd-toed ungulate
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
? Duchesneodus cf. uintensis Peterson 1931 brontothere
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Leptoreodon sp. Wortman 1898 protoceratid
 Artiodactyla - Leptomerycidae
Hendryomeryx sp. Black 1978 ruminant
 Artiodactyla - Agriochoeridae
Protoreodon pumilus Marsh 1875 agriochoerid
Agriochoerus sp. Leidy 1850 agriochoerid
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Mytonomys coelumensis1 Wilson and Stevens 1986 rodent
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Aguafriamys raineyi n. sp.2 Wilson and Runkel 1991 rodent