Ferris Formation (UW V-91002): Puercan, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Promioclaenus wilsoni Van Valen 1978
1 specimen
(1 measurement)
    = Valenia wilsoni Van Valen 1978
de Muizon and Cifelli 2000
Mammalia - Periptychidae
Periptychidae indet. Cope 1882
1 specimen
Periptychus coarctatus Cope 1883
1 specimen
Mithrandir gillianus (Cope 1882)
1 specimen
Oxyacodon priscilla Matthew 1937
1 specimen
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Loxolophus faulkneri Eberle and Lillegraven 1998
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Carbon
Coordinates: 41.8° North, 107.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.4° North, 84.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Middle Puercan
Key time interval:Puercan
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 63.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ferris
Local section:Ferris Local bed:3034 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be middle Puercan
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:5 specimens
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:UW
Taxonomic list comments:exact stratigraphic position somewhat uncertain; between 3010' and 3058' according to Lillegraven and Eberle 1999
"Taeniolabis" is said to occur here by Lillegraven and Eberle 1999, but this is a lapsus for UW V-91022
Metadata
Also known as:Red Rock Gully
Database number:14706
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1998-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-10-04 16:39:14
Access level:the public Released:1998-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1419. J. J. Eberle and J. A. Lillegraven. 1998. A new important record of earliest Cenozoic mammalian history: geologic setting, Multituberculata, and Peradectia. Rocky Mountain Geology 33(1):3-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

7306 C. de Muizon and R. L. Cifelli. 2000. The "condylarths" (archaic Ungulata, Mammalia) from the early Palaeocene of Tiupampa (Bolivia): implications on the origin of the South American ungulates. Geodiversitas 22(1):47-150 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
2236 J. A. Lillegraven and J. J. Eberle. 1999. Vertebrate faunal changes through Lancian and Puercan time in southern Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 73(4):691-710 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]