Where: Washakie County County, Wyoming (44.2° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 91.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Wa-0 mammal zone, Willwood Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• gray mudstone and anthills just above Little Red.
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"lithified, paleosol/pedogenic, muddy
Primary reference: K. D. Rose, A. E. Chew, R. H. Dunn, M. J. Kraus, H. C. Fricke and S. P. Zack. 2012. Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36:1-122 [J. Bloch/J. Bloch]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 154276: authorized by Jonathan Bloch, entered by Jonathan Bloch on 06.02.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
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Mimoperadectes labrus Bown and Rose 1979 marsupial | |
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Hyopsodus loomisi McKenna 1960 condylarth | |
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Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915 placental | |
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Uintacyon gingerichi Heinrich et al. 2008 placental | |
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Diacodexis ilicis Gingerich 1989 even-toed ungulate | |
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Chriacus badgleyi Gingerich 1989 condylarth | |
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Coryphodon sp. Owen 1845 pantodont | |
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Didelphodus sp. Cope 1882 eutherian | |