Also known as Python Point
Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.9° W: paleocoordinates 48.5° N, 84.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ferris Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)
• said to be middle Puercan
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the UW
Primary reference: J. J. Eberle and J. A. Lillegraven. 1998. A new important record of earliest Cenozoic mammalian history: geologic setting, Multituberculata, and Peradectia. Rocky Mountain Geology 33(1):3-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14722: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
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Palaeoryctidae indet. Winge 1917 eutherian | |
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Condylarthra indet. Cope 1881 placental | |
Periptychidae indet., Mithrandir gillianus, Ectoconus sp., Oxyacodon agapetillus, Conacodon delphae, Hemithlaeus harbourae
Periptychidae indet. Cope 1882 condylarth
Mithrandir gillianus Cope 1882 condylarth
Ectoconus sp. Cope 1884 condylarth
Oxyacodon agapetillus Cope 1884 condylarth
Conacodon delphae Eberle and Lillegraven 1998 condylarth
Hemithlaeus harbourae condylarth | |
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Arctocyonidae indet. Murray 1866 condylarth
Protungulatum gorgun Van Valen 1978 condylarth
Protungulatum donnae Sloan and Van Valen 1965 condylarth | |
"Mesodma cf. garfieldensis" = Mesodma thompsoni, Mesodma ambigua
"Mesodma cf. garfieldensis" = Mesodma thompsoni Clemens 1964 multituberculate
Mesodma ambigua Jepsen 1940 multituberculate | |
"Catopsalis joyneri" = Valenopsalis joyneri
"Catopsalis joyneri" = Valenopsalis joyneri Sloan and Van Valen 1965 multituberculate | |