Carpodaptes aulacodon (Carpolestidae)



Carpodaptes aulacodon ist eine Primatenart innerhalb der Familie Carpolestidae, die ab dem Paläogen (Paläozän) im Danium lebte, das vor rund 66 Millionen Jahren begann und bis vor 61,6 Millionen Jahren andauerte.

Fundorte

Systematik

Daten zu den einzelnen Funden von Carpodaptes aulacodon
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Kommentar zur Sammlung
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"
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Zanycteris paleocenus

Literatur

G. G. Simpson 1935, The Tiffany fauna, Upper Paleocene. 1, Multituberculata, Marsupialia, Insectivora, and ?Chiroptera. American Museum Novitates. 795, p. 1 - 19