Blue Point Marker (UW V-79005) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 48.1° N, 94.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UW

Primary reference: J. G. Eaton. 1982. Paleontology and correlation of Eocene volcanic rocks in the Carter Mountain area, Park County, southeastern Absaroka Range, Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 21(2):153-194 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 16139: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• overlies the "turtle-lake beds"
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Pseudotomus robustus3 Marsh 1872 rodent
Leptotomus parvus Wood 1959 rodent
"Acritoparamys wyomingensis" = Paramys wyomingensis1 Wood 1959 rodent
Paramys excavatus Loomis 1907 rodent
 Rodentia - Reithroparamyidae
Reithroparamys sp. Matthew 1920 rodent
 Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops sp.2 Leidy 1872 primate
 Primates - Notharctidae
Notharctus sp. Leidy 1870 primate
 Primates - Omomyidae
Washakius insignis Leidy 1873 tarsier
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Orohippus sp. Marsh 1872 horse
"intermediate between O. pumilus and O. major"
 Creodonta -
Limnocyon cf. verus Marsh 1872 creodont
 Theriamorpha - Viverravidae
Viverravus cf. sicarius Matthew 1909 placental
 Carnivora - Miacidae
Miacidae indet. Cope 1880 carnivoran
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus tonksi n. sp. Eaton 1982 condylarth
Hyopsodus cf. paulus Leidy 1870 condylarth
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Herpetotherium cf. marsupium Troxell 1923 marsupial