Big Sand Draw/Carter Draw: Wasatchian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Leptictidae
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Palaeictops sp.
Matthew 1899
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Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus sp.
Leidy 1870
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Lambdotherium popoagicum
Cope 1880
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Eotitanops cf. borealis
(Cope 1880)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Palaeotheriidae
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Hyracotherium vasacciense
(Cope 1872)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Orohippus proteros
Korth and Evander 1982
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
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Homogalax sp.
Hay 1899
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Heptodon sp.
Cope 1882
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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Shoshonius cooperi
Granger 1910
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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Notharctus venticolus
Osborn 1902
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Microsyopidae
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Microsyops cf. scottianus
Cope 1881
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Fremont |
| Coordinates: | 43.2° North, 108.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.0° North, 91.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
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: | Wind River | Member: | Lost Cabin |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:includes Thirty-one Cent Q., Pot Luck Q., Bunny Foot Q., and Halfway Draw Q. date of 49.2 (= 50.5) Ma on Halfway Draw Tuff (Evernden et al. 1964: KA 1012) is 2 mi. WSW of Bunny Foot Q.; however, Mauger 1977 argues that the sample is degraded and the date is probably too young |
Metadata
| Database number: | 15902 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2149. | W. W. Korth and R. L. Evander. 1982. A New Species of Orohippus (Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Early Eocene of Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2(2):167-171 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |