Elk Creek (210 m) (Eocene of the United States)
Also known as YPM 215
Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 90.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: D. M. Schankler. 1980. Faunal Zonation of the Willwood Formation in the Central Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 24:99-114 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 15517: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• approximate correlation: Y-112
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Haplomylus speirianus Cope 1880 elephant shrew | |
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Vassacyon promicrodon Wortman and Matthew 1899 placental | |
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Ectocion osbornianus Cope 1882 condylarth
Phenacodus intermedius Granger 1915 condylarth | |
"Hyracotherium aemulor" = Arenahippus aemulor
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Paramys cf. excavatus Loomis 1907 rodent | |
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Plagiomene multicuspis Matthew 1918 colugo | |
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Esthonyx bisulcatus Cope 1874 tillodont | |
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