Where: Hot Springs/Washakie County, Wyoming (43.9° N, 108.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 53.8° N, 73.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Torrejonian (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)
• Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation'
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the UW
Primary reference: J. E. Hartman. 1986. Paleontology and biostratigraphy of lower part of Polecat Bench Formation, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 24(1):11-63 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14897: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Aphronorus fraudator Simpson 1935 eutherian | |
Prodiacodon sp. Matthew 1929 eutherian | |
Litomylus dissentaneus Simpson 1935 elephant shrew | |
Protictis sp. Matthew placental | |
Tetraclaenodon puercensis Cope 1881 condylarth | |
"Mimotricentes subtrigonus" = Tricentes subtrigonus Cope 1881 condylarth | |
Anisonchus sectorius Cope 1881 condylarth | |
Promioclaenus acolytus Cope 1882 condylarth | |
Ptilodus sp. Cope 1881 multituberculate |