WW-96: Early/Lower Eocene, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cylindrodontidae
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Tuscahomys cf. major
Dawson and Beard 2007
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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Teilhardina brandti
Gingerich 1993
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Diacodexeidae
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Diacodexis ilicis
Gingerich 1989
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Ectocion parvus
Granger 1915
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hyracotherium sandrae
Gingerich 1989
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2 specimens | ||||||
| recombined as Sifrhippus sandrae | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
- Hyaenodontidae
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Arfia junnei
Gingerich 1989
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Viverravidae
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Didymictis leptomylus
Cope 1880
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus loomisi
McKenna 1960
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Washakie County |
| Coordinates: | 44.2° North, 107.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.7° North, 91.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Eocene | Mammal zone: | Wa-0 |
| Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Willwood | ||||
| Local section: | Sand Creek Divide | Local bed: | 9 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Regional section: | Bighorn Basin | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: gray mudstone below deep red (probably Purple 2), thus probably between Purples 1 and 2. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: gray mudstone below deep red (probably Purple 2), thus probably between Purples 1 and 2. | |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 154270 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Bloch | Enterer: | J. Bloch | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-02-06 13:47:09 | Last modified: | 2014-02-06 13:47:09 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-02-06 13:47:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 49988. | K. D. Rose, A. E. Chew, R. H. Dunn, M. J. Kraus, H. C. Fricke and S. P. Zack. 2012. Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36:1-122 [J. Bloch/J. Bloch] |