Exposure Near Top of Buzzard Pass: Wasatchian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841
"C"
Mammalia
Miacis latidens Matthew and Granger 1915
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Mesa
Coordinates: 39.2° North, 108.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.0° North, 92.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Middle Wasatchian
Key time interval:Wasatchian
Age range of interval:55.80000 - 50.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:DeBeque
Local section:FourP Local bed:228 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be middle Wasatchian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:FMNH
Metadata
Also known as:FMNH 452-41
Database number:15401
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
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:

2078. A. J. Kihm. 1984. Early Eocene Mammalian Fauna of the Piceance Creek Basin. Northwestern Colorado. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]