†Zanycteris paleocenus (Picrodontidae)
Zanycteris paleocenus ist eine Primatenart innerhalb der Familie Picrodontidae, die ab dem Paläogen (Paläozän) im Danium lebte, das vor rund 66 Millionen Jahren begann und bis vor 61,6 Millionen Jahren andauerte.
Fundorte
Die Funddaten, die Systematik sowie die unten folgende Literatursammlung stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
Daten zu den einzelnen Funden von Zanycteris paleocenus
| Sammlung | Kommentar zum Fundort | Epoche, Alter | Kommentar zur Sammlung | |
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| Mason Pocket | "on the Spring Creek drainage, seven miles southeast of Ignacio, near to the Mason schoolhouse... only a meter square" (Matthew 1917) (coordinate based on Ignacio) | - zwischen 56.8 und 61.7 Millionen Jahren |
Tiffany (in part) | |
| Lithographie | Museum | Kommentar z. Taxonomie | ||
| "dark gray shale very fine in texture... full of bones and fragments" (Matthew 1917) | AMNH | fauna known only from 1916 Granger collection sec 20 T 33 N R 6 W "Most other localities in the vicinity of Tiffany are stratigraphically higher than Mason Pocket": Butler et al. 1981 the "Bayfield" or "Tiffany" fauna includes many localities other than Mason Pocket such as Carracas Station and Crowbar Creek (see); additional records based on Simpson and other sources include the following: Chriacus sp., named Chriacus metocometi by Van Valen 1978 ? Dissacus sp. Phenacodus grangeri type Phenacodus matthewi type (includes type of "P. gidleyi"; see Thewissen 1990) additional Phenacodus sp. Phenacodus magnus Thewissen 1990: collected after Simpson 1935 Periptychus "superstes" type Aletodon ("Platymastus") mellon of Van Valen 1978 from 50 m above quarry: Gingerich 1983c Oxyaena sp. Gingerich 1980a from "near Tiffany"; probably the same as O. sp. from "just north of Mason Pocket" of Van Valen 1966 "Ignatiolambda barnesi" type Simons 1960: "presumed basal part of Tiffany formation, east of the Florida River and west of the Ignacio, north of the Mesa Mountains, SW 1/4, Sec. 29, R 8 W, T 34 N, La Plata County" |
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| U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: | Nannodectes gidleyi | |||
| Sammlung | Kommentar zum Fundort | Epoche, Alter | Geologie, Formation | Kommentar zur Sammlung |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saxonella Locality | SE of Blackfalds, 8 km northeast of Red Deer (Fox 1988) or "NE1/4, S13–S14, T39, R27, W4" (Scott 2010) coordinate based on Blackfalds | - zwischen 56.8 und 61.7 Millionen Jahren |
Paskapoo | Blindman River (in part); UA DW-2 |
| Kommentar z. Stratigraphie | Lithographie | Kommentar z. Taxonomie | ||
| "middle Tiffanian" (Fox 1984) or Ti3 (Fox 1988, Scott 2010) | "The fossiliferous horizons occur in greenish to grayish siltstones and brown to black fissile shales" (Scott et al. 2006) | list of Fox 1998 is the same as that of Fox 1990a | ||
| U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: | Foxomomys fremdi | |||
| Sammlung | Kommentar zum Fundort | Epoche, Alter | Kommentar zur Sammlung | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love Quarry | Togwotee Pass, Wind River Basin | - zwischen 56.8 und 61.7 Millionen Jahren |
Love's Locality L-14 | |
| Lithographie | Museum | Kommentar z. Taxonomie | ||
| "limestone-pellet conglomerate" | USGS | unit underlying Lower Variegated Sequence Gunnell 1994 lists Ptilodus sp. "C"; not clear if this replaces P. fractus |
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| U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: | Paromomys depressidens | |||
Literatur
G. G. Simpson 1935, The Tiffany fauna, Upper Paleocene. 1, Multituberculata, Marsupialia, Insectivora, and ?Chiroptera. American Museum Novitates. 795, p. 1 - 19M. C. McKenna 1980, Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance, Togwotee Pass area, northwestern Wyoming. Aspects of Vertebrate History: Essays in Honor of Edwin Harris Colbert, L. L. Jacobs (ed.), Museum of Northern Arizona Press. , p. 323 - 343
R. C. Fox 1988, Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammal localities of southern Alberta. Occasional Paper of the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. 6, p. 1 - 38
