Also known as Locality No. 6
Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.8° N, 86.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Torrejonian (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)
• in a stratigraphically isolated reversed polarity zone interpreted as chron 27r: Butler et al. 1987
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1942. Paleocene faunas of the Polecat Bench Formation, Park County, Wyoming Part II. Lizards. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 85(2):159-167 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 14912: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Roger Benson and K. Christopher Beard
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
meter level follows Butler et al. 1981
above two records presumably include "Tricentes cf. punitor" and "cf. Chriacus sp."
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"Peltosaurus jepseni" = Proxestops silberlingii
"Peltosaurus jepseni" = Proxestops silberlingii Gilmore 1938 squamates | |
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Cedrobaena putorius9 Gaffney 1972 turtle YPM PU 16837, the right 1/3 of a skull; YPM PU 18011, posterior portion of parietals
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Pronothodectes jepi n. sp.11
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"Mimotricentes subtrigonus" = Tricentes subtrigonus15, Chriacus katrinae15, "Chriacus orthogonius" = Thryptacodon orthogonius15, Arctocyon ferox10, "Arctocyon montanensis" = Arctocyon corrugatus15, Microclaenodon assurgens15
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Goniacodon levisanus n. sp.11
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Huerfanodon polecatensis n. sp.12
Huerfanodon polecatensis n. sp.12 Schoch and Lucas 1981 taeniodont presumably includes "Conoryctes sp." of Rose
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