PBDB Collection

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Lacertilia

	Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842	Clyde 1997
Reptilia - Testudines

	Testudines indet. Batsch 1788	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae

	Coryphodon lobatus Cope 1877	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
Mammalia - Esthonychidae

	Esthonyx bisulcatus Cope 1874	Clyde 1997	3 specimens
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae

	Apheliscus insidiosus (Cope 1874)	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae

	Hyopsodus minor Loomis 1905	Clyde 1997	16 specimens

	Hyopsodus lysitensis Gingerich 1974	Clyde 1997	30 specimens
Mammalia - Metacheiromyidae

	Palaeanodon ignavus Matthew 1918	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae

	Prototomus robustus (Matthew and Granger 1915)	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
Mammalia - Creodonta

	Prolimnocyon atavus Matthew and Granger 1915		3 specimens
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae

	Oxyaena sp. Cope 1874	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
Mammalia

	Miacis exiguus Matthew and Granger 1915	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
Mammalia - Viverravidae

	Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915	Polly 1997	3 specimens

	Didymictis protenus (Cope 1874)	Polly 1997	2 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Hyracotherium pernix (Marsh 1876)	Clyde 1997	44 specimens
	recombined as Arenahippus pernix
Mammalia - Perissodactyla

	Heptodon calciculus (Cope 1880)	Clyde 1997	3 specimens

	Hyracotherium cristatum Wortman 1896	Clyde 1997	4 specimens
	synonym of Systemodon tapirinus
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae

	Phenacodus vortmani (Cope 1880)	Clyde 1997	5 specimens
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae

	Bunophorus etsagicus (Cope 1882)	Clyde 1997	1 specimen

	Diacodexis metsiacus (Cope 1882)	Clyde 1997	12 specimens
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae

	Anacodon ursidens Cope 1882	Clyde 1997	2 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae

	Paramys sp. Leidy 1871	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

	Cantius abditus (Gingerich and Simons 1977)	Clyde 1997	6 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae

	Microsyops latidens (Cope 1882)	Clyde 1997	3 specimens
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Wyoming	County:	Park
Coordinates:	44.4° North, 108.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	49.0° North, 92.1° West
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Paleogene	Epoch:	Eocene
Stage:	Ypresian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 2
*Period:	Tertiary
Key time interval:	Early/Lower Eocene
Age range of interval:	56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Willwood
Local section:	East Y U Bench	Local bed:	1140
Local order:	bottom to top
Regional section:	Southeast	Regional bed:	2335
Regional order:	bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	lithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?	Y
Environment:	fluvial-lacustrine indet.	Tectonic setting:	intermontane basin

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	good
Associated major elements:	some
Disassociated major elements:	many
Temporal resolution:	time-averaged
Spatial resolution:	parautochthonous

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some genera
Collection methods:	surface (float),surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Museum repositories:	UMMP
Taxonomic list comments:may be in Big Horn County, Wa-6

Metadata

Database number:	15684
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, W. Clyde	Enterer:	J. Alroy, L. Gannon, W. Clyde
Modifier:	L. Gannon	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1998-09-21 00:00:00	Last modified:	2004-11-30 15:16:41
Access level:	the public	Released:	1998-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

11717		W. C. Clyde. 1997. Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. PhD Thesis, University of Michigan [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/J. Alroy]
2787		P. D. Polly. 1997. Ancestry and Species Definition in Paleontology: A Stratocladistic Analysis of Paleocene-Eocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(1):1-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]