Skyline (TMM 41715) (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 (39.7 - 37.0 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 16857: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• overlies Middle Mbr. and underlies Dogie Creek; at same level as Cotter Channels
Mammalia
 Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Harpagolestes sp. Wortman 1901 condylarth
see also Gustafson 1986b
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon cf. vetus Stock 1933 creodont
see also Gustafson 1986b
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
? Duchesneodus cf. uintensis Peterson 1931 brontothere
includes specimen of "Sthenodectes australis" of Wilson 1977a
 Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Amynodontopsis bodei Stock 1933 odd-toed ungulate
see Wilson and Schiebout 1981:
 Primates -
Mahgarita stevensi1 Wilson and Szalay 1976 primate
new specimen
Gastropoda
  - Helminthoglyptidae
Lysinoe breedlovei2 Roth 1984 snail