SC-114 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 91.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UMMP

Primary reference: R. F. Butler, P. D. Gingerich, and E. H. Lindsay. 1981. Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of Paleocene and Lower Eocene Continental Deposits, Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming. Journal of Geology 89 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 15770: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993

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Taxonomic list

• meter level estimated from figure of Bowen and Bloch 2002; estimate is roughly consistent with 395 m above base of Willwood figure of Bown and Rose 1987
Mammalia
 Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Haplomylus scottianus4 Gingerich 1994 elephant shrew
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Prototomus martis5 Gingerich and Deutsch 1989 creodont
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Hyracotherium aemulor" = Arenahippus aemulor3
"Hyracotherium aemulor" = Arenahippus aemulor3 Gingerich 1991 horse
 Perissodactyla -
Homogalax protapirinus3 Wortman 1896 odd-toed ungulate
 Primates - Notharctidae
Cantius mckennai1 Gingerich and Simons 1977 primate
 Primates - Omomyidae
Tetonius sp.2 Matthew 1915 tarsier
"matthewi-ambiguus"