Las Tetas De Cabra Formation
The Las Tetas de Cabra Formation is a geologic formation in Mexico. It preserves fossils dating back to the Wasatchian of the Early Eocene period.
Fossil content
The following fossils have been reported from the formation:
Mammals
- Acreodi
- Artiodactyls
- Cimolesta
- Didelphimorphia
- Ferae
- Glires
- Hyaenodonta
- Pantodonta
- Perissodactyls
- Placentalia
- Theriiformes
Reptiles
Amphibians
Fish
Invertebrates
- Gastropods
Flora
Wasatchian correlations
Formation | Wasatch | DeBeque | Claron | Indian Meadows | Pass Peak | Tatman | Willwood | Golden Valley | Coldwater | Allenby | Kamloops | Ootsa Lake | Margaret | Nanjemoy | Hatchetigbee | Tetas de Cabra | Hannold Hill | Coalmont | Cuchara | Galisteo | San Jose | Ypresian (IUCS) • Itaboraian (SALMA) Bumbanian (ALMA) • Mangaorapan (NZ) |
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Basin | Powder River Uinta Piceance Colorado Plateau Wind River Green River Bighorn |
Piceance |
Colorado Plateau |
Wind River |
Green River |
Bighorn |
Williston | Okanagan | Princeton | Buck Creek | Nechako | Sverdrup | Potomac | GoM | Laguna Salada | Rio Grande | North Park | Raton | Galisteo | San Juan | ||
Country | United States | Canada | United States | Mexico | United States | |||||||||||||||||
Copelemur | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Coryphodon | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Diacodexis | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Homogalax | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Oxyaena | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Paramys | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Primates | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Birds | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Reptiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Fish | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Insects | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Flora | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Environments | Alluvial-fluvio-lacustrine | Fluvial | Fluvial | Fluvio-lacustrine | Fluvial | Lacustrine | Fluvio-lacustrine | Deltaic-paludal | Shallow marine | Fluvial | Shallow marine | Fluvial | Fluvial | |||||||||
Volcanic | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
See also
References
- ^ Las Tetas de Cabra Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Alroy, 2002
- ^ Novacek et al. 1991
- ^ Morris, 1966
- ^ Novacek et al., 1987
- ^ Lucas, 1998
Bibliography
- Alroy, J (2002), Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals
- Froehlich, D. J (2002), "Quo vadis Eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla)", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 134 (2): 141–256, doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00005.x
- Lucas, S. G (1998), Fossil mammals and the Paleocene/Eocene series boundary in Europe, North America, and Asia, M.-P. Aubry, S. G. Lucas and W. A. Berggren (eds.), Late Paleocene–Early Eocene Biotic and Climatic Events in the Marine and Terrestrial Records, pp. 451–500
- Novacek, M. J.; Ferrusquía Villafranca, I.; Flynn, J. J.; Wyss, A. R.; Norell, M. A. (1991), "Wasatchian (early Eocene) mammals and other vertebrates from Baja California, Mexico : the Lomas Las Tetas de Cabra fauna", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 208: 1–88
- Novacek, M. J.; Flynn, J. J.; Ferrusquia Villafranca, I.; Cipolletti, R. M. (1987), "An early Eocene (Wasatchian) mammal fauna from Baja California", National Geographic Research, 3: 376–388
- Morris, W. J (1966), "Fossil mammals from Baja California: new evidence on early Tertiary migrations", Science, 153 (3742): 1376–1378, Bibcode:1966Sci...153.1376M, doi:10.1126/science.153.3742.1376, PMID 17814386