PBDB Collection

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

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

	Microsyops latidens (Cope 1882)	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae

	Absarokius abbotti (Loomis 1906)	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae

	Paramys sp. Leidy 1871	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae

	Oxyaena forcipata Cope 1874
Mammalia

	Vulpavus sp. Marsh 1871	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Viverravidae

	Viverravus sp. Marsh 1872	Clyde 1997

	Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915	Polly 1997

	Didymictis protenus (Cope 1874)	Polly 1997
Mammalia - Acreodi - Mesonychidae

	? Pachyaena sp. Cope 1874	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Hyracotherium craspedotum Cope 1880	Clyde 1997
	recombined as Xenicohippus craspedotum
Mammalia - Perissodactyla

	Heptodon sp. Cope 1882	Clyde 1997

	Homogalax sp. Hay 1899	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae

	Phenacodus sp. Cope 1873	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae

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

	Anacodon sp. Cope 1882	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae

	Hyopsodus minor Loomis 1905	Clyde 1997

	Hyopsodus miticulus (Cope 1874)	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Esthonychidae

	Esthonyx bisulcatus Cope 1874	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Leptictidae

	Didelphodus sp. Cope 1882	Clyde 1997
Reptilia - Anguidae

	Glyptosaurus sp. Marsh 1871	Clyde 1997
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Wyoming	County:	Park
Coordinates:	44.5° North, 108.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	49.2° North, 92.2° 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
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:	survey of museum collection
Museum repositories:	UMMP
Taxonomic list comments:may be in Big Horn County, Wa-6

Metadata

Database number:	15690
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:	2004-12-14 13:31:43
Access level:	the public	Released:	1998-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

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]