Hardscrabble Creek/Papoose Creek: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. (Owen 1845)
original and current combination Lophiodon (Coryphodon)
Mammalia - Esthonychidae
Esthonyx spatularius Cope 1880
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Haplomylus sp. Matthew 1915
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Hyracotherium angustidens (Cope 1875)
    = Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Ectocion osbornianus (Cope 1882)
"Papoose Creek only"
Mammalia - Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla indet. Owen 1848
additional "Diacodexis sp." and additional artiodactyl
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae
Diacodexis olseni Sinclair 1914
    = Diacodexis secans Cope 1881
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Paramyidae
Paramys sp. Leidy 1871
    = Paramyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Primates - Adapidae
Pelycodus sp. Cope 1875
    = Adapidae indet. Trouessart 1879
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae
Phenacolemur sp. Matthew 1915
    = Phenacolemurinae indet. Simpson 1955
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Teton
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 110.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.0° North, 94.0° 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:Lower Variegated Sequence
Local section:Togwo Local bed:5
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:presumably all taxa are present at Hardscrabble Creek except where noted
Metadata
Database number:15943
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2012-11-02 22:07:55
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2536. M. C. McKenna. 1980. Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance, Togwotee Pass area, northwestern Wyoming. Aspects of Vertebrate History: Essays in Honor of Edwin Harris Colbert, L. L. Jacobs (ed.), Museum of Northern Arizona Press 323-343 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]