Gas Tank Hill: Puercan, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Hydrobiidae
cf. Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Plesielliptio sp. (Russell 1934)
original and current combination Elliptio (Plesielliptio)
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Eucosmodontidae
Stygimys kuszmauli Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Lofgren et al. 2005
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Periptychidae
Conacodon utahensis n. sp. Robison 1986
(1 measurement)
    = Conacodon kohlbergeri Archibald et al. 1983
Alroy 2002
Ectoconus ditrigonus (Cope 1882)
Anisonchus athelas Van Valen 1978
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Loxolophus sp. Cope 1885
Mammalia - Condylarthra
Desmatoclaenus sp. Gazin 1941
Reptilia
Compsemys victa (Leidy 1856)
Reptilia - Crocodylia
cf. Leidyosuchus sp. Lambe 1907
    = Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842
Alroy 2007
Reptilia
cf. Allognathosuchus sp. Mook 1921
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
cf. Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Emery
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 111.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.3° North, 89.5° 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 - 63.30000 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:"floodplain"
Geology comments: "floodplains" (Lofgren et al. 2005)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:about 180 m below upper contact of Fm.
Metadata
Also known as:Flagstaff Peak; RAM Locality V20035; Utah loc. 42Em443V
Database number:14739
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-02-19 10:15:55
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]
19636 J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
19928 D. L. Lofgren, B. E. Scherer, C. K. Clark and B. Standhardt. 2005. First record of Stygimys (Mammalia, Multituberculata, Eucosmodontidae) from the Paleocene (Puercan) part of the North Horn Formation, Utah, and a review of the genus. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 12(1/2):77-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]