Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 92.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the UMMP
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: P. D. Polly. 1997. Ancestry and Species Definition in Paleontology: A Stratocladistic Analysis of Paleocene-Eocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(1):1-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 15693: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998, edited by Leah Gannon and Will Clyde
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Taeniodonta indet. taeniodont | |
Esthonyx bisulcatus Cope 1874 tillodont | |
Hyopsodus miticulus Cope 1874 condylarth
Hyopsodus minor Loomis 1905 condylarth | |
Viverravus sp. Marsh 1872 placental
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915 placental
Didymictis sp. Cope 1875 placental
Didymictis protenus Cope 1874 placental | |
Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841 odd-toed ungulate | |
Diacodexis metsiacus Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate |