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The Carnivora of the Lac Pelletier Lower Fauna (Eocene: Duchesnean), Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Harold N. Bryant
Harold N. Bryant*
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Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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Abstract

The Duchesnean Lac Pelletier Lower Fauna, Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan, includes 15 isolated teeth that are referred to the Carnivora (Mammalia). The fauna includes Miocyon magnus n. sp., Daphoenus cf. D. demilo, Hesperocyon sp., and indeterminate taxa; no members of the Creodonta were identified. This is the latest record of Miocyon and the earliest record of Hesperocyon. The fauna is transitional between Uintan carnivoran faunas that were dominated by miacids and the establishment in the early Chadronian of the White River carnivoran chronofauna, and suggests that the transition, which was largely a Duchesnean event, was gradual.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 66 , Issue 5 , September 1992 , pp. 847 - 855
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