SC-210: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Gastrodonta sp. Albers 1850
Protoboysia complicata
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Physidae
Physa sp. Draparnaud 1801
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Grangerellidae
Grangerella sp. Cockerell 1915
Gastropoda - Heterostropha
Sigmurethra indet. Pilsbry 1900
"three or more terrestrial types"
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pupillidae
Pupillidae indet. Turton 1831
"2 species"
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Polygyridae
Polygyra sp. Say 1818
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Oreohelicidae
Oreohelix sp. Pilsbry 1904
Gastropoda - Viviparidae
Viviparus sp. Montfort 1810
Gastropoda - Discidae
Discus sp. Fitzinger 1833
Mammalia - Leptictidae
cf. Prodiacodon sp. Matthew 1929
Mammalia
Ectoganus sp. Cope 1874
Mammalia - Proteutheria - Palaeoryctidae
Eoryctes melanus Thewissen and Gingerich 1989
Thewissen and Gingerich 1989
presumably includes "cf. Palaeoryctes sp.," which is in the same subfamily
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. (Owen 1845)
original and current combination Lophiodon (Coryphodon)
Mammalia - Esthonychidae
Esthonyx spatularius Cope 1880
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus loomisi McKenna 1960
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Apheliscus insidiosus (Cope 1874)
    = Apheliscus chydaeus Gingerich 1994
Gingerich 1994
Haplomylus speirianus (Cope 1880)
Mammalia - Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Pachyaena sp. Cope 1874
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Phenacodus sp. Cope 1873
    = Phenacodontidae indet. Cope 1881
Alroy 2002
Ectocion osbornianus (Cope 1882)
described by Thewissen 1990
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hyracotherium grangeri Gingerich 1989
recombined as Sifrhippus grangeri
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Homogalax sp. Hay 1899
    = Cardiolophus radinskyi Gingerich 1991
Gingerich 1991
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Thryptacodon antiquus Matthew and Granger 1915
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae
Diacodexis metsiacus (Cope 1882)
    = Diacodexis sp. Cope 1882
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Viverravus rosei Polly 1997
Polly 1997
presumably "V. sp. 1"
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915
confirmed by Polly 1997
Didymictis protenus (Cope 1874)
Polly 1997
Mammalia - Carnivora - Miacidae
Uintacyon sp. Leidy 1873
    = Miacidae indet. Cope 1880
Alroy 2002
Mammalia
Miacis winkleri Gingerich 1983
Gingerich 1983
recombined as Gracilocyon winkleri
probably "M. exiguus" of Winkler
Mammalia - Metacheiromyidae
Palaeanodon nievelti Gingerich 1989
Gingerich 1989
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Mammalia - Creodonta
Prolimnocyon haematus Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Prototomus sp. Cope 1874
    = Prototomus phobos Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Tritemnodon sp. Matthew 1906
Arfia sp. Van Valen 1965
    = Arfia shoshoniensis Matthew and Granger 1915
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Mammalia
cf. Talpavus sp. Marsh 1872
Mammalia - Parapternodontidae
Insectivora indet. Bowdich 1821
    = Parapternodus antiquus Bown and Schankler 1982
Asher et al. 2002
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Leipsanolestes sp. Simpson 1928
    = Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817
Alroy 2002
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
cf. Paramys sp. Leidy 1871
three forms
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae
Phenacolemur praecox Matthew 1915
    = Phenacolemurinae indet. Simpson 1955
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Tetonoides tenuiculus (Jepsen 1930)
    = Teilhardina americana Bown 1976
Bown and Rose 1987
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Pelycodus ralstoni Matthew 1915
    = Cantius ralstoni Matthew 1915
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops wilsoni Szalay 1969
    = Arctodontomys wilsoni Szalay 1969
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Ectypodus tardus (Jepsen 1940)
Reptilia - Anguidae
Odaxosaurus cf. jepseni
cf. Gerrhonotus sp. Wiegmann 1828
Melanosaurus maximus Gilmore 1928
Paraglyptosaurus sp. Sullivan 1979
Reptilia - Baenidae
"Baena sp." Leidy 1870
Reptilia
Allognathosuchus sp. Mook 1921
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
egg shell fragments
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amia sp. Linnaeus 1766
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
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
Local section:Clark Local bed:1645 m
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:1041 specimens
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:UMMP
Taxonomic list comments:NISP 1737, but only 1041 are craniodental
1645 m level
Metadata
Database number:15793
Authorizer:J. Alroy, R. Whatley Enterer:J. Alroy, R. Whatley
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2006-09-13 00:29:51
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3714. D. A. Winkler. 1983. Paleoecology of an Early Eocene mammalian fauna from paleosols in the Clarks Fork Basin, northwestern Wyoming (U.S.A.). Palaeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 43:261-298 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Whatley]

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]
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]
1657 P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
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]
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]
3403 J. G. M. Thewissen and P. D. Gingerich. 1989. Skull and Endocranial Cast of Eoructes melanus, a New Palaeoryctid (Mammalia: Insectivora) from the Early Eocene of Western North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(4):459-470 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]