Tremain: Arikareean, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Florentiamyidae
Florentiamys kinseyi n. sp. Wahlert 1983
"Three miles ENE of Tremain Station, Goshen Co., Wyo.; Gering Formation"
Florentiamys kennethi Wahlert 1983
synonym of Florentiamys tiptoni
"Three miles ENE of Tremain Station, Goshen Co... Gering Formation"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
"Mesocyon" temnodon (Wortman and Matthew 1899)
Wang 1994
1 mi E of Tremain and 3.5 mi E of Tremain, Lower Arikaree Group
Paraenhydrocyon josephi (Cope 1881)
Wang 1994
4 mi E of Tremain and 1/2 mi E of Tremain railroad station, Lower Arikaree Group
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diceratherium annectens (Marsh 1873)
Prothero 2005
"Early Arikareean, Gering Formation, 3.5 miles east of Tremain, Goshen County, Wyoming"
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Desmatochoerus hatcheri (Douglass 1907)
Schultz and Falkenbach 1954
"2-3 mi. E. of Tremain" in the Horse Creek Basin, Goshen Co.
Pseudocyclopidius lullianus (Thorpe 1921)
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
recombined as Leptauchenia lullianus
"Tremain" in "upper Gering"
Leptauchenia parasimus Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
synonym of Leptauchenia decora
"upper Gering" of "Tremain Area"
Pithecistes altageringensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
synonym of Leptauchenia decora
"E. of Tremain" in "upper Gering"
Hadroleptauchenia densa (Loomis 1925)
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
synonym of Leptauchenia major
"Tremain area" in "upper Gering"
Megasespia middleswarti Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
synonym of Sespia ultima
"Tremain area"
Sespia nitida (Leidy 1869)
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
"Tremain"
Oreodontoides oregonensis (Thorpe 1921)
Stevens et al. 2023
original and current combination Eporeodon (Oreodontoides) oregonensis
Desmatochoerus (Paradesmatochoerus) anthonyi n. sp. Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
synonym of Merycoidodon major
upper "Gering Formation, 3 1/2 mi. E. of Tremain"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Laramie
Coordinates: 41.3° North, 105.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.2° North, 99.4° 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:appears to go across the Goshen/Laramie county line
Metadata
Database number:17703
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1996-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:1996-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/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]
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]
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]
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]