Ferron Mountain: Puercan, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
cf. Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
Mammalia - Condylarthra
Desmatoclaenus paracreodus Gazin 1941
    = Desmatoclaenus hermaeus Gazin 1941
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Promioclaenus wilsoni Van Valen 1978
may include "P. acolytus" according to Van Valen 1988, who refers to the "Gas Tank Fauna" but must mean this record
    = Valenia wilsoni Van Valen 1978
de Muizon and Cifelli 2000
Mammalia - Periptychidae
Oxyacodon ferronensis Archibald et al. 1983
Periptychus hamaxitus Gazin 1941
    = Periptychus coarctatus Cope 1883
Alroy 2002
Ectoconus symbolus Gazin 1941
Ectoconus ditrigonus (Cope 1882)
additional specimen from OMNH V829 "probably the same as... Ferron Mountain" described by Cifelli et al. 1995
Anisonchus cf. oligistus Gazin 1941
Anisonchus athelas Van Valen 1978
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Loxolophus pentacus (Cope 1888)
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Taeniolabididae
cf. Taeniolabis taoensis (Cope 1882)
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Hoplochelys sp. Hay 1908
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
    = Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Alroy 2006
Reptilia
Compsemys victa (Leidy 1856)
Reptilia - Crocodylia
cf. Leidyosuchus sp. Lambe 1907
    = Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842
Alroy 2007
Reptilia
cf. Allognathosuchus sp. Mook 1921
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Sanpete
Coordinates: 39.1° North, 111.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.6° North, 90.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Puercan
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 63.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:North Horn
Local section:NHorn Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:about 180 m below upper contact of Fm.
Metadata
Database number:14736
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:39
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2930. S. F. Robison. 1986. Paleocene (Puercan-Torrejonian) mammalian faunas of the North Horn Formation, central Utah. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 33(1):87-133 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
18120 J. Alroy. 2006. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
19636 J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
7306 C. de Muizon and R. L. Cifelli. 2000. The "condylarths" (archaic Ungulata, Mammalia) from the early Palaeocene of Tiupampa (Bolivia): implications on the origin of the South American ungulates. Geodiversitas 22(1):47-150 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]