Bear Creek Mountain (Lower): Arikareean, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Palaeolagus hypsodus
Schlaikjer 1935
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Dawson 1958 | |||||||||
| from "30 feet above Brule-lower Harrison channel deposit": presumably a lapsus meaning 30' above contact and in a channel deposit | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Stenomylus hitchcocki
Loomis 1910
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| "24 feet above the Brule-lower Harrison contact"; east end of mountain | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Cyclopidius densa
(Loomis 1925)
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| from "twelve feet above and... forty feet above the Brule contact"; west end of mountain | ||||||||||
| 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: | 29.5 - 18.5 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:stratigraphic level not indicated: "Sciurus sp." "Mesoreodon" chelonyx "Promerycochoerus hatcheri" Capatanka minor Xu 1996: "Lusk 378-3541, Bear Mountain" | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17467 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2015-12-30 13:45:57 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3041. | E. M. Schlaikjer. 1935. Contributions to the Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of the Goshen Hole Area, Wyoming. III. A New Basal Oligocene Formation. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 76(3):71-93 [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] | |
| 1335 | M. R. Dawson. 1958. Later Tertiary Leporidae of North America. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions Vertebrata 6:1-75 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Holroyd] |