No Water (288'): Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Peradectes chesteri (Gazin 1952)
    = Peradectes protinnominatus McKenna 1960
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Apheliscus sp. Cope 1875
    = Apheliscus chydaeus Gingerich 1994
Gingerich 1994
Haplomylus speirianus (Cope 1880)
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915
Didymictis protenus (Cope 1874)
    = Didymictis sp. Cope 1875
Alroy 2002
may be this and/or D. leptomylus, see Polly 1997
Mammalia - Carnivora - Miacidae
Uintacyon sp. Leidy 1873
    = Miacidae indet. Cope 1880
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Arfia opisthotoma (Matthew 1901)
    = Arfia zele Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Prototomus sp. Cope 1874
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Oxyaena sp. Cope 1874
    = Dipsalidictis transiens Matthew and Granger 1915
Gunnell and Gingerich 1991
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae
Diacodexis metsiacus (Cope 1882)
    = Diacodexis sp. Cope 1882
Alroy 2002
could be D. primus, see Krishtalka and Stucky 1985
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Ectocion osbornianus (Cope 1882)
Phenacodus primaevus (Cope 1873)
    = Phenacodus sp. Cope 1873
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hyracotherium angustidens (Cope 1875)
    = Hyracotherium grangeri Gingerich 1989
Gingerich 1991
recombined as Sifrhippus grangeri
Mammalia - Lipotyphla
? Lipotyphla indet. Haeckel 1866
synonym of Eulipotyphla
Mammalia
cf. Leipsanolestes sp. Simpson 1928
Bown and Schankler 1982
Leipsanolestes cf. siegfriedti Simpson 1928
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae
Plagioctenodon krausae Bown 1979
Bown and Schankler 1982
sensu
Mammalia - Rodentia - Paramyidae
Reithroparamys sp. Matthew 1920
    = Paramyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
Alroy 2002
Paramyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys excavatus Loomis 1907
Microparamys sp. Wood 1959
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae
Phenacolemur praecox Matthew 1915
    = Phenacolemurinae indet. Simpson 1955
Alroy 2002
Phenacolemur simonsi Bown and Rose 1976
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Cantius sp. Simons 1962
"Pelycodus ralstoni/trigonodus"
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Tetonoides sp. Gazin 1962
    = Omomyidae indet. Gazin 1958
Alroy 2002
Tetonius homunculus (Cope 1882)
    = Tetonius sp. Matthew 1915
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops wilsoni Szalay 1969
    = Arctodontomys wilsoni Szalay 1969
Alroy 2002
Niptomomys doreenae McKenna 1960
Mammalia - Esthonychidae
Esthonyx spatularius Cope 1880
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. (Owen 1845)
original and current combination Lophiodon (Coryphodon)
Mammalia - Leptictidae
Didelphodus absarokae (Cope 1881)
Prodiacodon tauricinerei (Jepsen 1930)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Washakie
Coordinates: 44.0° North, 108.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.7° North, 90.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
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:Willwood
Local section:ElkCr Local bed:88 m
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:248 specimens
Taxonomic list comments:88 or 89 m level
Talpavoides dartoni may be present: Bown and Schankler 1982
Sandcouleean
Metadata
Database number:15504
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:40
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2953. K. D. Rose. 1981. The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 26:1-197 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1125 T. M. Bown and D. Schankler. 1982. A review of the Proteutheria and Insectivora of the Willwood Formation (Lower Eocene), Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1523:1-79 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
1660 P. D. Gingerich. 1991. Systematics and Evolution of Early Eocene Perissodactyla (Mammalia) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(8):181-213 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
1662 P. D. Gingerich. 1994. New species of Apheliscus, Haplomylus, and Hyopsodus (Mammalia, Condylarthra) from the late Paleocene of southern Montana and early Eocene of northwestern Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 29(6):119-134 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/K. Beard]
1666 P. D. Gingerich and H. A. Deutsch. 1989. Systematics and Evolution of Early Eocene Hyaenodontidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(13):327-391 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
1745 G. F. Gunnell and P. D. Gingerich. 1991. Systematics and Evolution of Late Paleocene and Early Eocene Oxyaenidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(7):141-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]