La Barge: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Peratherium chesteri Gazin 1952
    = Peradectes chesteri Gazin 1952
Alroy 2002
Peratherium edwardi Gazin 1952
Mammalia - Leptictidae
Palaeictops pineyensis n. sp. (Gazin 1952)
    = Palaeictops bicuspis Cope 1880
Alroy 2002
Mammalia
Stylinodontinae indet. Schlosser 1911
confirmed by Schoch 1986
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Thryptacodon antiquus Matthew and Granger 1915
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Meniscotherium robustum Thorpe 1934
    = Meniscotherium chamense Cope 1874
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Hyracotherium cf. craspedotum Cope 1880
    = Perissodactyla indet. Owen 1848
Alroy 2002
- could be Systemodon tapirinus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Protorohippus cf. venticolum (Cope 1881)
Hussain 1971
"LaBarge medium"
Hyracotherium vasacciense (Cope 1872)
    = Minippus index Cope 1873
Froehlich 2002
"LaBarge small"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Lambdotherium popoagicum Cope 1880
see Bonillas 1936
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Heptodon ventorum (Cope 1880)
    = Heptodon calciculus Cope 1880
Alroy 2002
Heptodon posticus (Cope 1882)
Radinsky 1963
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Hexacodus pelodes Gazin 1952
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae
Diacodexis secans (Cope 1881)
    = Diacodexis sp. Cope 1882
Alroy 2002
could be D. kelleyi or something else
Bunophorus cf. macropternus (Cope 1882)
Mammalia
Vulpavus asius n. sp. Gazin 1952
    = Vulpavus australis Matthew and Granger 1915
Alroy 2002
Miacis exiguus Matthew and Granger 1915
    = Miacis sp. Cope 1872
Alroy 2002
Miacis cf. latidens Matthew and Granger 1915
Uintacyon asodes Gazin 1952
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Didymictis altidens Cope 1880
Viverravus lutosus Gazin 1952
Mammalia - Epoicotheriidae
Pentapassalus pearcei Gazin 1952
    = Tubulodon pearcei Gazin 1952
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Oxyaena sp. Cope 1874
    = Oxyaena lupina Cope 1874
Gunnell 1998
Ambloctonus major Denison 1938
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Sinopa cf. vulpecula Matthew and Granger 1915
    = Gazinocyon cf. vulpeculus Matthew and Granger 1915
Alroy 2002
Sinopa cf. strenua (Cope 1875)
    = Tritemnodon cf. strenuus Cope 1875
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Creodonta
Prolimnocyon elisabethae Gazin 1952
    = Prolimnocyon antiquus Matthew and Granger 1915
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Acreodi
Sinopa viverrina (Cope 1874)
    = Wyolestes dioctes n. sp. Gingerich 1982
Gingerich 1982
specimen proposed as neotype of Prototomus viverrinus by Van Valen 1966 DUPLICATE REF 1645 or 1646 or 1647 or 1648 or 1649
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys copei Loomis 1907
includes "P. major"; described by Wood 1962 as P. copei copei
Paramys excavatus Loomis 1907
assigned to P. excavatus excavatus by Wood 1962
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Dawsonomys woodi Gazin 1961
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae
Knightomys senior (Gazin 1952)
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Notharctus cf. venticolus Osborn 1902
Notharctus limosus n. sp. Gazin 1952
    = Cantius nunienus Cope 1881
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Cynodontomys knightensis Gazin 1952
    = Microsyops knightensis Gazin 1952
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Omomys sheai n. sp. Gazin 1962
(2 measurements)
    = Loveina sheai Gazin 1962
Alroy 2002
Chlororhysis knightensis n. sp. Gazin 1958
Anemorhysis sublettensis n. sp. (Gazin 1952)
presumably includes tentative record of Gunnell 1995a from "Red Buttes... 12 miles north of Big Piney"
Absarokius noctivagus Matthew 1915
    = Absarokius abbotti Loomis 1906
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus wortmani Osborn 1902
Hyopsodus cf. mentalis (Cope 1875)
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon radians (Cope 1872)
Coryphodon lobatus Cope 1877
Lucas 1998
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Apatemys hurzeleri n. sp. Gazin 1962
    = Apatemys bellulus Marsh 1872
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Esthonychidae
Esthonyx acutidens Cope 1881
Reptilia - Anguidae
Arpadosaurus gazinorum n. gen., n. sp. Meszoely 1970
Meszoely 1970
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: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:Wasatch Member:LaBarge
Local section:GRBsn Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be from the "Knight Mbr." (= LaBarge)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:580 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:said to underlie the Tipton Shale (=Fontenelle), therefore clearly within the La Barge Mbr. sensu Krishtalka et al. 1987
apparently includes material referred to by Szalay 1969a as "Muddy Creek locality, 12 miles north of Big Piney... Sublette Co."
Lostcabinian
Metadata
Also known as:12 mi north of Big Piney; Tulsa
Database number:15662
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot, P. Holroyd
Modifier:P. Holroyd Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2024-01-07 14:31:20
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1616. C. L. Gazin. 1962. A Further Study Of The Lower Eocene Mammalian Faunas Of Southwestern Wyoming. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 144(1):1-98 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
53105 D. J. Froehlich. 2002. Quo vadis Eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134:141-256 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
1645 P. D. Gingerich. 1982. Time resolution in mammalian evolution: sampling, lineages and faunal turnover. Proceedings of the Third North American Paleontological Convention 1:205-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1735 G. F. Gunnell. 1998. Creotonda. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
61845% 38720S.T. Hussain. 1971. Revision of Hipparion (Equidae, Mammalia) from the Siwalik Hills of Pakistan and India. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematich-Naturwissen Schaftliche Klasse Abhandlungen 147:68 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/W. Clyde]
6280 S. G. Lucas. 1998. Fossil mammals and the Paleocene/Eocene series boundary in Europe, North America, and Asia. In M.-P. Aubry, S. G. Lucas and W. A. Berggren (eds.), Late Paleocene–Early Eocene Biotic and Climatic Events in the Marine and Terrestrial Records 451-500 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
14550 C. Meszoely. 1970. North American fossil anguid lizards. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 139(2):87-149 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Head]
2818 L. B. Radinsky. 1963. Origin and Early Evolution of North American Tapiroidea. Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 17:1-118 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]