Wagonroad Upper Horizon: Torrejonian, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Promioclaenus cf. shepherdi
(Gazin 1939)
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= Promioclaenus cf. lemuroides
Matthew 1897
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Periptychidae
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Haploconus inopinatus
Gazin 1939
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= Haploconus angustus
Cope 1881
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
presumably the type of Gazin 1941 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Oxyclaenus pearcei
Gazin 1941
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= Chriacus baldwini
Cope 1882
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Taeniolabididae
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Catopsalis utahensis
Gazin 1939
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= Catopsalis fissidens
Cope 1884
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Emery |
Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 111.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 46.0° North, 90.5° 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: | Torrejonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 63.30000 - 61.70000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | North Horn | ||||
Local section: | NHorn | Local bed: | 4 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: immediately above Dragon Canyon sensu stricto and close to the bottom of a reversed magnetic polarity zone interpreted as C27r, but there is no tie point in the section: see Lucas et al. 1997 |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:87 m below upper contact of Fm. firmly correlated using paleomag with Dragon Canyon |
Metadata
Also known as: | UALP 7733; Gidley's Locality 4, in part; Dragon Level at Wagonroad | ||
Database number: | 14889 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-11-16 15:18:19 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
3436. | Y. Tomida and R. F. Butler. 1980. Dragonian mammals and Paleocene magnetic polarity stratigraphy, North Horn Formation, central Utah. American Journal of Science 280:787-811 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
2319 | S. G. Lucas, T. E. Williamson, and M. D. Middleton. 1997. Catopsalis (Mammalia: Multituberculata) from the Paleocene of New Mexico and Utah: taxonomy and biochronological significance. Journal of Paleontology 71(3):484-492. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/K. Maguire] |