No Water (590'): Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Mimoperadectes sp. Bown and Rose 1979
Mammalia - Leptictidae
Prodiacodon tauricinerei (Jepsen 1930)
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. (Owen 1845)
original and current combination Lophiodon (Coryphodon)
Mammalia - Esthonychidae
Esthonyx spatularius Cope 1880
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870
    = Hyopsodus cf. loomisi McKenna 1960
Redline 1997
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Haplomylus speirianus (Cope 1880)
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 - Diacodexeidae
Diacodexis metsiacus (Cope 1882)
    = Diacodexis sp. Cope 1882
Alroy 2002
could be D. primus, see Krishtalka and Stucky 1985
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915
Mammalia - Carnivora - Miacidae
Miacidae indet. Cope 1880
Mammalia
Uintacyon massetericus (Cope 1882)
    = Uintacyon rudis Rose 1981
Gingerich 1983
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Oxyaena sp. Cope 1874
    = Oxyaenidae indet. Cope 1877
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Tritemnodon sp. Matthew 1906
    = Prototomus sp. Cope 1874
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
and probably represents P. phobos
Prolimnocyon atavus Matthew and Granger 1915
    = Prototomus sp. Cope 1874
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
is probably Prototomus martis or P. deimos
Arfia opisthotoma (Matthew 1901)
    = Arfia zele Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Mammalia
Talpavoides dartoni Bown and Schankler 1982
Bown and Schankler 1982
? Leipsanolestes simpsoni Bown 1979
    = Eolestes simpsoni Bown 1979
Alroy 2002
recombined as Auroralestes simpsoni
Mammalia - Rodentia - Paramyidae
Paramyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys francesi Wood 1962
    = Acritoparamys francesi Wood 1962
Alroy 2002
Paramys excavatus Loomis 1907
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae
Phenacolemur praecox Matthew 1915
    = Phenacolemurinae indet. Simpson 1955
Alroy 2002
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 - Notharctidae
Cantius sp. Simons 1962
"Pelycodus ralstoni/trigonodus" and "P. ? sp." said to be new
Mammalia - Primates - Micromomyidae
Tinimomys graybulliensis Szalay 1974
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Niptomomys doreenae McKenna 1960
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:182 m
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:212 specimens
Taxonomic list comments:182 m level
Sandcouleean
"Plagioctenodon krausae" is not present: Bown and Schankler 1982
Metadata
Database number:15515
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]
1650 P. D. Gingerich. 1983. Paleocene-Eocene faunal zones and a preliminary analysis of Laramide structural deformation in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 34:185-195 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
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]
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]
6223 A. D. Redline. 1997. Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 13. Systematics and phylogenetic pattern of early Eocene Hyopsodus (Mammalia: Condylarthra). Annals of Carnegie Museum 66(1):1-81 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]