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