Middle and Late Eocene Mammal Communities: A Major Discrepancy
- 7 April 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 156 (3771) , 62-64
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.156.3771.62
Abstract
The multituberculate Parectypodus lovei has been found in late Eocene rocks in Montana, together with 11 other mammal species similar to those found in the late Eocene Tepee Trail Formation in Wyoming.The multituberculate and six other species are unknown in rocks of equivalent age or of middle Eocene age elsewhere.It is suggested that the known middle Eocene faunas are all taken from a similar ecological situation and do not reflect the true diversity of middle Eocene life. Middle Eocene faunas of different ecological aspect may be recovered from sediments along, and in, the mountain fronts of northwestern Wyoming.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Paleontology and geology of the Badwater Creek area, central Wyoming. Part 1. History of field work and geological settingAnnals of the Carnegie Museum, 1966
- A review of late Eocene mammalian faunas from North AmericaAmerican Journal of Science, 1966
- Late Eocene Multituberculates and Other Mammals from WyomingScience, 1964