Vista: Whitneyan, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Pseudocynodictis temnodon n. sp.
(Wortman and Matthew 1899)
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recombined as Mesocyon temnodon | ||||||||||
from Castle Rock, see Wang 1994 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Miohippus sp.
Marsh 1874
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Diceratherium tridactylum
(Osborn 1893)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
"Vista Member, Logan County, Colorado" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Hyracodontidae
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Hyracodon sp.
Leidy 1856
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= Hyracodon leidyanus
Troxell 1921
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Prothero 1996 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Protomeryx campester
Matthew 1901
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= Paralabis cedrensis
Matthew 1901
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Prothero 1996 | |||||||||
recombined as Matthewlabis cedrensis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Leptauchenia decora
Leidy 1856
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Eporeodon major
(Leidy 1853)
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recombined as Merycoidodon major | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Perchoerus nanus
(Marsh 1894)
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= Tayassuidae indet.
Palmer 1897
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Wright 1998 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Hypisodontidae
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Hypisodus minimus
(Cope 1873)
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"form B" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Leptomerycidae
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Leptomeryx evansi
Leidy 1853
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Mammalia
- Leptochoeridae
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Leptochoerus spectabilis
Leidy 1856
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KU-Col-14: see Edwards 1976a | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proscalopidae
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Proscalops miocaenus n. sp.
Matthew 1901
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(3 measurements) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Eumys brachyodus
Wood 1937
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Palaeolagus intermedius
Matthew 1899
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Palaeolagus burkei n. sp.
Schlaikjer 1935
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see Wood 1940 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
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Peratherium fugax
(Cope 1873)
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corrected as Herpetotherium fugax | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Logan |
Coordinates: | 40.8° North, 103.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 41.8° North, 95.8° 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: | 33.30000 - 30.80000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | White River | Member: | Vista |
Local section: | Logan | Local bed: | 5 |
Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection size: | 15 specimens |
Taxonomic list comments:White Marker bed at the base of the member is geochemically and paleomagnetically correlable with the Lower Whitney Ash, making this equivalen to Whitney B: Prothero 1996c |
Metadata
Database number: | 17426 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1570. | E. C. Galbreath. 1953. A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions Vertebrata 4:1-120 [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] | |
2805 | 5% 6280 | D. R. Prothero. 1996. Camelidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 609-651 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
6272 | D. R. Prothero. 1996. Hyracodontidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 652-663 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
6238 | D. B. Wright. 1998. Tayassuidae. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America 389-401 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |