Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.1° N, 109.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 53.0° N, 76.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Tiffanian (60.9 - 56.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UMMP
Primary reference: D. W. Krause. 1980. Early Tertiary amphibians from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 243:69-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 53059: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.09.2005, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Opisthotriton kayi Auffenberg 1961 salamander | |
Mammalia | |
Ectoganus cf. lobdelli Simpson 1929 taeniodont | |
Aletodon sp. Gingerich 1977 elephant shrew | |
Plesiadapis fodinatus Jepsen 1930 primate | |
Viverravus schaffi Gingerich and Winkler 1985 placental | |
Dipsalodon churchillorum Rose 1981 creodont | |
Thryptacodon pseudarctos Simpson 1928 condylarth | |
Phenacodus grangeri Simpson 1935 condylarth
Phenacodus vortmani Cope 1880 condylarth
Phenacodus magnus Thewissen 1990 condylarth
Ectocion mediotuber Thewissen 1990 condylarth | |
Probathyopsis harrisorum Patterson 1939 uintathere |