Storm Quarry (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Princeton Storm Quarry

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 88.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Union Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation'

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: K. D. Rose. 1975. The Carpolestidae: Early Tertiary primates from North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 147(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 15068: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

• meter level based on Gunnell and Gingerich 1991
this is very close to Princeton Quarry
sec 21 T57N R100W
Mammalia
 Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Dipsalodon churchillorum2 Rose 1981 creodont
 Theriamorpha - Viverravidae
Viverravus politus1 Matthew and Granger 1915 placental
 Primates - Carpolestidae
Carpolestes dubius Jepsen 1930 primate