Old Woman Creek: Orellan, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudo praeextans n. sp.
Lambe 1913
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Lambe 1913 | |||||||||
| synonym of Gopherus laticuneus | ||||||||||
| CMN 8401 (holotype), shell (Lambe 1913, pl. IV–V) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Stylemys nebrascensis
Leidy 1851
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Lambe 1913 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Platyochoerus platycephalus
(Thorpe 1921)
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Stevens et al. 2023 | |||||||||
| synonym of Miniochoerus affinis | ||||||||||
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Stenopsochoerus sternbergi n. sp.
Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 | |||||||||
| synonym of Miniochoerus affinis | ||||||||||
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Miniochoerus battlecreekensis
Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 | |||||||||
| synonym of Miniochoerus affinis | ||||||||||
| "Platyochoerus platycephalus" Schultz and Falkenbach 1956; and type of "Stenopsochoerus sternbergi" Schultz and Falkenbach 1956: all implicitly "Zone A" and synonyms of M. affinis; M. ("Stenopsochoerus") chadronensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1956: implicitly "Zone A"; sample is apparently stratigraphically mixed because two species form a chronocline elsewhere | ||||||||||
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Prodesmatochoerus meekae n. sp.
Schultz and Falkenbach 1954
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| synonym of Merycoidodon culbertsonii | ||||||||||
| Brule Zone A; "Otionohyus wardi" Schultz and Falkenbach 1968: Brule Zone A | ||||||||||
| 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 - 31.80000 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 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17152 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot, E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3067. | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1954. Desmatochoerinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 105(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 64803 | L. M. Lambe. 1913. Description of a new species of Testudo, and of a remarkable specimen of Stylemys Nebrascensis, from the Oligocene of Wyoming. The Ottawa Naturalist 14:57-63 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] |