North of Node: Orellan, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Hesperocyon gregarius
(Cope 1873)
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"North of Node Road... 20 ft below a channel"; possibly Chadronian, but I know of no Chadronian records from this locality | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merycoidodon culbertsoni
(Leidy 1848)
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
original and current combination Merycoidodon culbertsonii | ||||||||||
"Merycoidodon culbertsoni osborni": also "Otionohyus wardi"; Brule Zone A | ||||||||||
Miniochoerus affinis
(Leidy 1869)
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 | |||||||||
= Miniochoerus sp.
Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
"North of Node"; M. chadronensis "Stenopsochoerus douglasensis" Schultz and Falkenbach 1956: "North of Node, which includes "Northeast of Node" M. "battlecreekensis" according to Stevens and Stevens 1996; sample is apparently stratigraphically mixed because two species form a chronocline elsewhere | ||||||||||
Stenopsochoerus douglasensis
Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
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Stevens et al. 2023 | |||||||||
synonym of Miniochoerus chadronensis | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Niobrara |
Coordinates: | 43.0° North, 104.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 44.2° North, 96.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Orellan | ||
Age range of interval: | 33.90000 - 33.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 17149 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 00:34:39 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
6226. | X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
3068 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1956. Miniochoerinae and Oreonetinae two new subfamilies of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 109(4):373-482 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
3069 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1968. The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part 1: Merycoidodontinae, Eporeodontinae, and Leptaucheniinae, Three Subfamilies Of Oreodonts, With an Appendix to the Revision Of The Merycoidodontidae, and Part 2. Summary and Conclusions Concerning the Merycoidodontidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139:1-498 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
86699 | M. S. Stevens, D. R. Prothero, C. Cleaveland, E. Welsh, K. Marriott, T. Htun, D. Balassa, S. M. Olson, K. I. Watmore and D. Wheeler. 2023. Systematics of the Late Oligocene and Miocene Oreodonts (Merycoidodontidae: Artiodactyla). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 93:1-226 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |