Powder River (Lower) (Paleogene of the United States)

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.7° N, 89.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: "Wasatch" Formation, Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: K. D. Rose and T. M. Bown. 1982. New Plesiadapiform Primates from the Eocene of Wyoming and Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2(1):63-69 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 15090: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.07.1994

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Taxonomic list

• "stratigraphically much lower than the Powder River local fauna"
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Plagiomenidae
Plagiomenidae indet. Matthew 1918 placental
"closest to... Plagiomene accola and Planetetherium mirabile"
 Primates - Micromomyidae
Tinimomys graybulliensis Szalay 1974 primate