Sixty Six Mountain (Whitneyan): Whitneyan, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Merycoidodon major (Leidy 1853)
referred "Desmatochoerus anthonyi" of Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 from "middle part of Whitney Formation" according to Skinner field data
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diceratherium tridactylum (Osborn 1893)
Prothero 2005
"Middle Whitneyan (80 feet above lower Whitney Ash), 66 Mountain, Goshen County, Wyoming"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Goshen
Coordinates: 42.0° North, 104.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.0° North, 96.8° 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:Whitneyan
Age range of interval:31.80000 - 29.50000 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:17383
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
6270. M. S. Stevens and J. B. Stevens. 1996. Merycoidodontinae and Miniochoerinae. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 498-573 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]