Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 88.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Fort Union Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
• Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation'
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: K. D. Rose and D. W. Krause. 1982. Cyriacotheriidae, A New Family of Early Tertiary Pantodonts From Western North America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 126(1):26-50 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 15011: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Cyriacotherium argyreum n. sp.
Cyriacotherium argyreum n. sp. Rose and Krause 1982 pantodont |