Mark’s Locality (WMU 110) (Paleogene of the United States)

Also known as Ten Mile Draw; WMU locality 110; Bitter Creek Road; Twelvemile Well

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 91.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Union Formation, Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)

• two beds in Upper Fort Union Formation, close to the mapped but locally unexposed contact between the Fort Union and the overlying Wasatch formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; gray, green, silty mudstone

• overbank deposit
• grey-green silty mudstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1994

Primary reference: R. L. Anemone, E. M. Johnson, and C. M. Rubick. 1999. Primates and other mammals from the Great Divide Basin, SW Wyoming: systematics, geology, and chronology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 28:84 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 15216: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.06.2000, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Peradectidae
Peradectes sp.1 Matthew and Granger 1921 marsupial
WMU-VP
 Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Apheliscus nitidus1 Simpson 1937 elephant shrew
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Ectocion osbornianus1 Cope 1882 condylarth
WMU-VP
Phenacodus sp.1 Cope 1873 condylarth
WMU-VP
 Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Thryptacodon sp.1 Matthew and Granger 1915 condylarth
WMU-VP
 Theriamorpha - Viverravidae
Didymictis sp.1 Cope 1875 placental
WMU-VP
 Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Plagioctenodon sp.1 Bown 1979 placental
WMU-VP
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceoidae
Diacocherus sp.1 Gingerich 1983 placental
 Theriamorpha - Pantolestoidae
Palaeosinopa sp.1 Matthew 1901 placental
WMU-VP
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Ischyromyidae indet.1 Alston 1876 rodent
 Primates - Plesiadapidae
cf. Plesiadapis sp.1 Gervais 1877 primate
Plesiadapis dubius2 Matthew 1915 primate
Plesiadapis cookei2 Jepsen 1930 primate
 Primates - Carpolestidae
Carpolestes nigridens1 Simpson 1928 primate
 Primates - Paromomyidae
"Phenacolemur cf. pagei" = Dillerlemur pagei1
"Phenacolemur cf. pagei" = Dillerlemur pagei1 Jepsen 1930 primate
 Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Parectypodus sp.1 Jepsen 1930 multituberculate
WMU-VP
 Multituberculata - Ptilodontidae
Prochetodon sp.1 Jepsen 1940 multituberculate
WMU-VP