WY0001 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Cabin Fork

Where: Washakie County, Wyoming (43.9° N, 107.7° W: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 90.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Willwood Formation, Sandcouleean (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

• "ca. 3.6 meters" above the base of the Willwood in the earliest Eocene "biozone Wa-0"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. B. Boyer

• University of Florida collection

Primary reference: S. G. B. Chester, J. I. Bloch, R. Secord and D. M. Boyer. 2010. A new small-bodied species of Palaeonictis (Creodonta, Oxyaenidae) from the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 17(4):227-243 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100280: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Palaeonictis wingi n. sp. Chester et al. 2010 creodont