T 14: Uintan, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Miacidae
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Uintacyon scotti
(Wortman and Matthew 1899)
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= Miocyon scotti
Wortman and Matthew 1899
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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= Miocyon vallisrubrae
Friscia and Rasmussen 2010
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Friscia and Rasmussen 2010 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Brewster |
| Coordinates: | 29.2° North, 103.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.5° North, 93.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Local age/stage: | Uintan |
| Key time interval: | Uintan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 46.20000 - 39.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | TMM |
| Taxonomic list comments:"probably Whistler Squat and Serendipity local faunas... 20.7 to 27.4 m... above the Alamo Creek Basalt" | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | TMM 40165 | ||
| Database number: | 16628 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2019-04-05 15:52:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1758. | E. P. Gustafson. 1986. Carnivorous mammals of the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of Trans-Pecos Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 33:1-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 36145 | A. R. Friscia and D. T. Rasmussen. 2010. Middle Eocene Carnivoramorpha of the Uinta Basin, Utah. Annals of Carnegie Museum 79(1):51-63 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |