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 | |
Palaeonictis wingi n. sp.
Palaeonictis wingi n. sp. Chester et al. 2010 creodont |