PBDB Collection

MP-163: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia

	Allognathosuchus sp. Mook 1921	Clyde 1997
Reptilia - Testudines

	Testudines indet. Batsch 1788	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae

	Coryphodon lobatus Cope 1877	Clyde 1997	1 specimen

	Coryphodon armatus (Cope 1872)	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
Mammalia - Esthonychidae

	Esthonyx bisulcatus Cope 1874	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae

	Haplomylus scottianus Gingerich 1994	Gingerich 1994	1 specimen
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae

	Hyopsodus latidens Denison 1937	Clyde 1997	6 specimens
Mammalia - Acreodi - Mesonychidae

	Pachyaena ossifraga Cope 1874	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae

	Prototomus robustus (Matthew and Granger 1915)		2 specimens
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae

	Oxyaena sp. Cope 1874	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Hyracotherium pernix (Marsh 1876)	Clyde 1997	6 specimens
	recombined as Arenahippus pernix
Mammalia - Perissodactyla

	Homogalax protapirinus (Wortman 1896)	Clyde 1997	2 specimens

	Hyracotherium ? cristatum Wortman 1896	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
	synonym of Systemodon tapirinus
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae

	Ectocion osbornianus (Cope 1882)	Clyde 1997	1 specimen

	Phenacodus intermedius Granger 1915	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae

	Diacodexis metsiacus (Cope 1882)	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

	Cantius trigonodus (Matthew 1915)	Clyde 1997	1 specimen
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Wyoming	County:	Park
Coordinates:	44.6° North, 108.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	49.3° North, 91.5° 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:	Wasatchian
Age range of interval:	54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Willwood
Local section:	Foster Gulch - Y U Bench	Local bed:	775
Local order:	bottom to top
Regional section:	Southeast	Regional bed:	1970
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
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	UMMP
Taxonomic list comments:may be in Big Horn County, Wa-4

Metadata

Database number:	15704
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, W. Clyde	Enterer:	J. Alroy, L. Gannon, W. Clyde
Modifier:	G. Varnham	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1997-04-12 00:00:00	Last modified:	2022-02-15 07:40:09
Access level:	the public	Released:	1997-04-12 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]
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]