SC-48 (Paleogene of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.7° N, 90.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UMMP

Primary reference: K. D. Rose. 1981. The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 26:1-197 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]more details

PaleoDB collection 15107: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Will Clyde

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• level appears to be 1420 m in fig. 3 but Gunnell and Gingerich 1991b and Bowen and Bloch 2002 give it as 1425 m
Mammalia
 Dermoptera -
Plagiomene accola Rose 1981 colugo
 Primates - Paromomyidae
Phenacolemur praecox Matthew 1915 primate
 Rodentia - Paramyidae
Paramyidae indet.3 Miller and Gidley 1918 rodent
 Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Palaeonictis peloria2 Rose 1981 creodont
 Theriamorpha -
Uintacyon rudis Rose 1981 placental
 Theriamorpha - Viverravidae
Didymictis protenus Cope 1874 placental
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Ectocion osbornianus Cope 1882 condylarth
Phenacodus intermedius4 Granger 1915 condylarth
 Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Apheliscus nitidus Simpson 1937 elephant shrew
 Theriamorpha - Leptictidae
cf. Prodiacodon tauricinerei Jepsen 1930 eutherian
 Dinocerata - Prodinoceratidae
Probathyopsis praecursor Simpson 1929 uintathere
Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Emydidae "indet. A"1 Rafinesque 1815 turtle