Also known as Under the Maelstrom; UW V-94041
Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 86.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: lower Member (Hanna Formation), Torrejonian to Torrejonian (63.8 - 56.8 Ma)
• said to be late Torrejonian to early Tiffanian
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: R. Secord. 1998. Paleocene mammalian biostratigraphy of the Carbon Basin, southeastern Wyoming, and age constraints on local phases of tectonism. Rocky Mountain Geology 33(1):119-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 14851: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Haplaletes disceptatrix Simpson 1935 elephant shrew | |
cf. Protoselene sp. Matthew 1897 condylarth
Promioclaenus cf. lemuroides Matthew 1897 condylarth
Promioclaenus acolytus Cope 1882 condylarth | |
Plesiolestes sp. Jepsen 1930 primate | |
Palaechthon cf. alticuspis Gidley 1923 primate | |
Plesiadapidae indet. Trouessart 1897 primate | |
cf. Mimotricentes sp. Simpson 1937 condylarth
Thryptacodon sp. Matthew and Granger 1915 condylarth
"Mimotricentes ? subtrigonus" = Tricentes subtrigonus Cope 1881 condylarth | |
Gelastops cf. joni Rigby 1980 eutherian
Paleotomus carbonensis n. sp. Secord 1998 eutherian | |
Neoplagiaulax nelsoni Sloan 1987 multituberculate
Parectypodus sylviae Rigby 1980 multituberculate | |
Ptilodus mediaevus Cope 1881 multituberculate | |
Anconodon sp. Jepsen 1940 multituberculate |