Roy Saunders Locality: Early/Lower Hemingfordian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merychyus cf. elegans
Leidy 1858
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| described as "M. arenarum" by Colbert 1943 and "M. sp." from "Lincoln Co." by Schultz and Falkenbach 1947 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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? Oxydactylus sp.
Peterson 1904
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Teton |
| Coordinates: | 43.9° North, 110.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.7° North, 107.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Hemingfordian |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Hemingfordian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Colter | Member: | between Units 5 and 28 | ||
| Local section: | Coltr | Local bed: | 3 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be early Hemingfordian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
| Database number: | 19046 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1019. | A. D. Barnosky. 1986. Arikareean, Hemingfordian, and Barstovian Mammals From the Miocene Colter Formation, Jackson Hole, Teton County, Wyoming. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 26:1-69 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |