Ferris Formation (UW V-92016) (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as One Thousand Points of Pain

Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 52.3° N, 71.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ferris Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.8 Ma)

• said to be middle Puercan

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the UW

Primary reference: J. J. Eberle and J. A. Lillegraven. 1998. A new important record of earliest Cenozoic mammalian history: geologic setting, Multituberculata, and Peradectia. Rocky Mountain Geology 33(1):3-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14725: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
cf. Mimatuta sp. Van Valen 1978 condylarth