Where: Wyoming (44.7° N, 108.4° W: paleocoordinates 50.0° N, 89.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Cf2 (56.8 - 55.8 Ma)
• Cf-2
• 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: W. C. Clyde. 1997. Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. PhD Thesis, University of Michigan [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46651: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Will Clyde on 24.01.2005, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Probathyopsis harrisorum Patterson 1939 uintathere | |
"Phenacolemur pagei" = Dillerlemur pagei
"Phenacolemur pagei" = Dillerlemur pagei Jepsen 1930 primate | |
Plesiadapis dubius Matthew 1915 primate | |
Ectocion osbornianus Cope 1882 condylarth
Phenacodus sp. Cope 1873 condylarth
Phenacodus intermedius Granger 1915 condylarth | |
Princetonia cf. yalensis, "Tricentes sp." = Chriacus
Princetonia cf. yalensis Gingerich 1989 condylarth
"Tricentes sp." = Chriacus Cope 1883 condylarth | |
Didymictis sp. Cope 1875 placental | |
Phenacodaptes sp. Jepsen 1930 elephant shrew
Apheliscus nitidus Simpson 1937 elephant shrew | |
Reptilia | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Lacertilia indet. lizard | |
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian |