WW-119 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Washakie County County, Wyoming (44.1° 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)

• sandy white and gray just below Upper Purple 2; probably same bed as WW-101.

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"lithified, paleosol/pedogenic, muddy, sandy

• sandy white and gray just below Upper Purple 2; probably same bed as WW-101.

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 154282: authorized by Jonathan Bloch, entered by Jonathan Bloch on 06.02.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Stylinodontidae
Ectoganus cf. lobdelli Simpson 1929 taeniodont
also mentions an additional specimen of this species from "unnumbered locality just above Red 1: USNM 527722 (associated canine, incisor, cheek teeth, and bone fragments)."
 Primates - Notharctidae
Cantius torresi Gingerich 1986 primate
said to be "~3 m below WW-119"
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Hyracotherium sandrae" = Sifrhippus sandrae
"Hyracotherium sandrae" = Sifrhippus sandrae Gingerich 1989 horse
 Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Chriacus badgleyi Gingerich 1989 condylarth
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Arfia junnei Gingerich 1989 creodont
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Peradectes protinnominatus McKenna 1960 marsupial
"Cf. Peradectes protinnominatus"