Shack Draw: Orellan, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Miniochoerus gracilis
(Leidy 1851)
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 | |||||||||
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Platyochoerus platycephalus
(Thorpe 1921)
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 | |||||||||
| synonym of Miniochoerus affinis | ||||||||||
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Stenopsochoerus sternbergi
Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
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| synonym of Miniochoerus affinis | ||||||||||
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Merycoidodon culbertsoni
(Leidy 1848)
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| original and current combination Merycoidodon culbertsonii | ||||||||||
| includes their "M. culbertsoni osborni"; "Otionohyus wardi"; and "Genetochoerus periculorum" - all from 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 |
| Taxonomic list comments:apparently in the Seamen Hills area, see Wang 1994 all oreodonts of Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 are implicitly from "Brule Zone A" "Hesperocyon gregarius" Wang 1994: "upper end of Shack Draw" (not clear if this is Chadronian or Orellan) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17178 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | 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:
| 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] |
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] | |
| 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] |