Southwestern End of Seamen Hills (Orellan): Orellan, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Hesperocyon gregarius
(Cope 1873)
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| 20 and 30 ft above PWL | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Platyochoerus platycephalus
(Thorpe 1921)
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 | |||||||||
| synonym of Miniochoerus affinis | ||||||||||
| "S. W. end of Seamen Hills" Brule Zone A | ||||||||||
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Otionohyus wardi
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
| synonym of Merycoidodon culbertsonii | ||||||||||
| "SW. end of Seamen Hills" base of UPW, 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 |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17196 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1996-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 00:34:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1996-08-05 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] |