SC-192: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Microparamys scopaiodon n. sp. Korth 1984
Korth 1984
    = informal Korth sciuravid scopaiodon
Alroy 2002
Reptilia - Anguidae
Anguidae indet. Gray 1825
ElShafie 2024
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Apheliscus chydaeus Gingerich 1994
Gingerich 1994
Haplomylus scottianus Gingerich 1994
Gingerich 1994
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus simplex Loomis 1905
Redline 1997
CM 873
Hyopsodus loomisi McKenna 1960
Redline 1997
CM 873
Mammalia - Dermoptera
Plagiomene multicuspis Matthew 1918
Rose 1981
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Teilhardina sp. Simpson 1940
Bown and Rose 1987
T. crassidens-americana intergrade
Tetonius matthewi Bown and Rose 1987
Bown and Rose 1987
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Arctodontomys wilsoni (Szalay 1969)
Gunnell 1985
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Pelycodus mckennai Gingerich and Simons 1977
Gingerich and Simons 1977
    = Cantius mckennai Gingerich and Simons 1977
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae
Pontifactor sp. West 1974
Rose 1981
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Viverravus politus Matthew and Granger 1915
Polly 1997
Viverravus rosei Polly 1997
Polly 1997
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915
Polly 1997
Mammalia
Miacis exiguus Matthew and Granger 1915
Gingerich 1983
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Arfia opisthotoma (Matthew 1901)
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Prototomus phobos Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Prototomus martis Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Mammalia - Creodonta
Prolimnocyon atavus Matthew and Granger 1915
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Arenahippus aemulor (Gingerich 1991)
Froehlich 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Homogalax protapirinus (Wortman 1896)
Gingerich 1991
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Ectypodus tardus (Jepsen 1940)
Parectypodus simpsoni Jepsen 1930
recombined as Ectypodus simpsoni
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Park
Coordinates: 44.3° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.2° North, 91.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
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
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Museum repositories:UMMP
Taxonomic list comments:mistakenly referred to as CM 878 by Redline 1997 in a table
Metadata
Also known as:CM 873; PU Hackberry Hollow locality
Database number:15790
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot, P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:40
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2158. D. W. Krause. 1982. Multituberculates from the Wasatchian Land-Mammal Age, Early Eocene, of Western North America. Journal of Paleontology 56(2):271-294 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1123 T. M. Bown and K. D. Rose. 1987. Patterns of Dental Evolution in Early Eocene Anaptomorphine Primates (Omomyidae) from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Paleontological Society Memoir 23:1-162 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
87093 S. J. ElShafie. 2024. Body size estimation from isolated fossil bones reveals deep time evolutionary trends in North American lizards. PLoS ONE 19(1:e0296318):1-25 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
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]
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]
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]
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]
1675 P. D. Gingerich and E. L. Simons. 1977. Systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of early Eocene Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) in North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 24(22):245-279 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1728 G. F. Gunnell. 1985. Systematics of Early Eocene Microsyopinae (Mammalia, Primates) in the Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(2):51-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2105 W. W. Korth. 1984. Earliest Tertiary evolution and radiation of rodents in North America. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 24:1-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
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]
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]
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]