Horse Creek (Wyoming): Arikareean, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Palaeocastor nebrascensis
(Leidy 1856)
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| "Lusk 276-2252, Horse Creek"; apparently an AMNH field number | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Florentiamyidae
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Florentiamys kennethi
Wahlert 1983
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Wahlert 1983 | |||||||||
| synonym of Florentiamys tiptoni | ||||||||||
| "Horse Creek, Goshen Co., Wyo.; Gering Formation" (6 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Archaeocyon leptodus
(Schlaikjer 1935)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
| "Horse Creek area, lower Arikaree Group... Goshen County" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Pseudodesmatochoerus milleri
Schultz and Falkenbach 1954
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1954 | |||||||||
| Horse Creek basin, Goshen Co. | ||||||||||
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Mesoreodon megalodon
Peterson 1907
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1949 | |||||||||
| recombined as Desmatochoerus megalodon | ||||||||||
| "Horse Creek area, Goshen County" | ||||||||||
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Desmatochoerus (Paradesmatochoerus) wyomingensis
Schultz and Falkenbach 1954
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1954 | |||||||||
| synonym of Mesoreodon minor | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Pseudolabis dakotensis
Matthew 1904
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Prothero 1996 | |||||||||
| "Horse Creek, Willow Creek area, Goshen Co." | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Goshen |
| Coordinates: | 42.0° North, 104.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.9° North, 98.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Key time interval: | Arikareean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 29.50000 - 18.50000 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 |
| Taxonomic list comments:could be almost anywhere in the Goshen Hole but probably close to Sixty-Six Mountain or Bear Creek Mountain | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17524 | ||
| 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:
| 3779. | X. Xu. 1996. Castoridae. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 412-432 [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] |
| 3065 | C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1949. Promerycochoerinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 93(3):69-198 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 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] | |
| 3528 | J. H. Wahlert. 1983. Relationships of the Florentiamyidae (Rodentia, Geomyoidea) based on cranial and dental morphology. American Museum Novitates 2769:1-23 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 3558 | X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |