Omomys lloydi (Omomyidae)



Omomys lloydi ist eine Primatenart innerhalb der Familie Omomyidae, die ab dem Paläogen (Eozän) im Ypresium lebte, das vor rund 56 Millionen Jahren begann und bis vor 47,8 Millionen Jahren andauerte.

Fundorte

Systematik

Daten zu den einzelnen Funden von Omomys lloydi
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Powder Wash (Upper) 2 mi SE of Powder Springs Ypresian
zwischen 46.2 und 50.3 Millionen Jahren
Green River Powder Springs
Lithographie Kommentar z. Taxonomie
"a uniformly muddy, fine-grained sublitharenite" (Gunnell and Bartels 1999) sec 8 T 7S R 25E: Van Houten 1945
same as the "Green River" fauna of Burke 1935 and Kay 1957
according to Remy 1992 there is an Ar-Ar date of 47.2 Ma on the "curly tuff... between the S1 marker unit and the Magohany oil shale bed" (S1 unit is lower); because the fauna is from "82 m below" the shale and the date is interpreted by Remy as Uintan, I assume it is too young for use as a calibration point
"Class 1" reliability K-Ar date of 44.8 (= 46.0) +/- 0.9 Ma (Mauger 1977) for the Wavy Tuff is definitely too young for use as the tuff is 20 ft above the Mahogany Oil Shale; Wavy Tuff redated at 42.3 +/- 2.0 (FT on zircon) by Bryant et al. 1989
original list repeated almost without modification by Gunnell and Bartels 1999
Black and Sutton list the following: Thisbemys corrugatus "Leptotomus bridgerensis"
falls in the Parachute Creek Mbr. sensu Roehloer 1992
early Bridgerian
the record of Apatemys hendryi reported by Robinson 1966b is omitted without comment by K & S
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Uintasorex parvulus
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
South Pass (Gardnerbuttean) although South Pass is within Fremont Co., some localities also may be in Sublette and/or Sweetwater counties Ypresian
zwischen 46.2 und 50.3 Millionen Jahren
Wasatch Honeycomb Buttes
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
spans upper chron C24n and lower chron C23r: Clyde et al. 2001 ""thick brown paper shales interbedded with relatively pure carbonate, trona, and gypsum beds"
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Microsyops knightensis
Sammlung Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation
Dogie Mountain (TMM 42952) Lutetian
zwischen 40.4 und 46.2 Millionen Jahren
Devil's Graveyard
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Museum Kommentar z. Taxonomie
said to be late Uintan TMM described in a 1988 Ph.D. thesis by A. C. Runkel
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Omomys carteri

Literatur

L. Krishtalka, R. K. Stucky 1984, Middle Eocene marsupials (Mammalia) from northeastern Utah and the mammalian fauna from Powder Wash. Annals of Carnegie Museum. 53:2, p. 31 - 46
G. F. Gunnell, W. S. Bartels 2001, Basin margins, biodiversity, evolutionary innovation, and the origin of new taxa. Eocene biodiversity: unusual occurrences and rarely sampled habitats (G. F. Gunnell, ed.). :2, p. 403 - 432
B. A. Williams, E. C. Kirk 2008, New Uintan primates from Texas and their implications for North American patterns of species richness during the Eocene. Journal of Human Evolution. 55:6, p. 927 - 941