South Table Mountain: Puercan, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteidae indet.
Cuvier 1825
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Middleton and Dewar 2004 | |||||||||
rare | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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Middleton and Dewar 2004 | |||||||||
common | ||||||||||
= Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Alroy 2007 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Baenidae indet.
Cope 1882
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Middleton and Dewar 2004 | |||||||||
common | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodylidae
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Crocodylidae indet.
Cuvier 1807
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Middleton and Dewar 2004 | |||||||||
abundant | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Allognathosuchus sp.
Mook 1921
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Middleton and Dewar 2004 | |||||||||
?common | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Periptychidae
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? Tinuviel gazini
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= Alticonus gazini
Eberle and Lillegraven 1998
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
originally an unpublished name | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Baioconodon denverensis n. sp.
Gazin 1941
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Mammalia
- Cimolestidae
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Procerberus grandis n. sp.
Middleton and Dewar 2004
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Procerberus andesiticus n. sp.
Middleton and Dewar 2004
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Jefferson |
Coordinates: | 39.6° North, 105.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 45.9° North, 82.9° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:not clear what "Catopsalis foliatus" of Sloan 1981 is |
Metadata
Also known as: | UCM loc. 77283 | ||
Database number: | 14774 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:40 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2585. | M. D. Middleton. 1983. Early Paleocene vertebrates of the Denver Basin, Colorado. 1-404 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
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] | |
19561 | M. D. Middleton and E. W. Dewar. 2004. New mammals from the early Paleocene Littleton fauna (Denver Formation, Colorado). In S. G. Lucas, K. E. Zeigler, P.E. Kondrashov (eds.), New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 26:59-80 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen] |