Big Piney 3: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Smith and Holroyd 2003
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus wortmani Osborn 1902
Smith and Holroyd 2003 26 specimens
Mammalia - Viverravidae
cf. Viverravus sp. Marsh 1872
3 specimens
    = Viverravus lutosus Gazin 1952
Smith and Holroyd 2003
Mammalia - Creodonta
Prolimnocyon elisabethae Gazin 1952
Smith and Holroyd 2003 2 specimens
synonym of Prolimnocyon antiquus
entered as "Prolimnocyon elizabethae"
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Gazinocyon vulpeculus (Matthew and Granger 1915)
2 specimens
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Hexacodus pelodes Gazin 1952
Smith and Holroyd 2003 1 specimen
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae
Diacodexis sp. Cope 1882
Smith and Holroyd 2003 2 specimens
Bunophorus macropternus (Cope 1882)
Smith and Holroyd 2003 1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Eotitanops borealis (Cope 1880)
Smith and Holroyd 2003 1 specimen
Lambdotherium popoagicum Cope 1880
Smith and Holroyd 2003 21 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Heptodon calciculus (Cope 1880)
Smith and Holroyd 2003 13 specimens
entered as "Heptacodon calciculus"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hyracotherium index (Cope 1873)
Smith and Holroyd 2003 21 specimens
recombined as Minippus index
Orohippus proteros Korth and Evander 1982
Smith and Holroyd 2003 1 specimen
Hyracotherium venticolum (Cope 1881)
Smith and Holroyd 2003 24 specimens
recombined as Protorohippus venticolum
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys copei Loomis 1907
Smith and Holroyd 2003 3 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Cantius sp. Simons 1962
Smith and Holroyd 2003 1 specimen
Cantius frugivorus (Cope 1875)
Smith and Holroyd 2003 6 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Absarokius abbotti (Loomis 1906)
Smith and Holroyd 2003 4 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops knightensis (Gazin 1952)
Smith and Holroyd 2003 12 specimens
Mammalia - Esthonychidae
Esthonyx sp. Cope 1874
Smith and Holroyd 2003 1 specimen
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Apatemys sp. Marsh 1872
Smith and Holroyd 2003 1 specimen
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Smith and Holroyd 2003
Reptilia - Lacertilia
Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842
Smith and Holroyd 2003
Reptilia - Anguidae
cf. Eoglyptosaurus donohoei (White 1952)
Sullivan 1979 1 specimen
synonym of Glyptosaurus sylvestris
UCMP 118364, partial anterior skeleton
Reptilia - Testudines
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
Smith and Holroyd 2003
unclassified
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Smith and Holroyd 2003
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Sublette
Coordinates: 42.7° North, 110.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.7° North, 93.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Wasatchian
Age range of interval:54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wasatch Member:main body
Local section:GRBsn Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: "∼35 m below the contact of the Wasatch Formation with the Scheggs Bed of the Tipton Shale Member of the Green River Formation" and now assigned to the main body of the Wasatch Formation per Smith and Holroyd 2003.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP,USNM
Taxonomic list comments:this is almost due N of Big Piney and west of the New Fork- Big Sandy area; Gazin's La Barge localities are S of Big Piney, except some about 12 mi due N on Muddy Creek that are referred to as "Red Buttes" or "Muddy Creek" elsewhere in the literature
This locality previously referred to Knight Mbr. or LaBarge Mbr. but these rocks placed in main body of Wasatch Fm. by Roehler 1992.
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V-77064
Database number:15454
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, P. Barrett Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, T. Cleary
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1997-04-12 00:00:00 Last modified:2012-02-25 19:01:08
Access level:the public Released:1997-04-12 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2786. P. D. Polly. 1996. The skeleton of Gazinocyon vulpeculus gen. et. comb nov. and the cladistic relationships of Hyaenodontidae (Eutheria, Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(2):303-319 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

19815 K. T. Smith and P. A. Holroyd. 2003. Rare taxa, biostratigraphy, and the Wasatchian-Bridgerian boundary in North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 369:501-511 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
60385 R. M. Sullivan. 1979. Revision of the Paleogene genus Glyptosaurus (Reptilia, Anguidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 163(1):1-72 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]