Where: USA County, Wyoming (44.2° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 89.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cf-3 mammal zone, Fort Union Formation, Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)
• Fossils from drab mudstones in Fort Union Formation
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"lithified, paleosol/pedogenic, muddy
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float)
Primary reference: K. D. Rose, A. E. Chew, R. H. Dunn, M. J. Kraus, H. C. Fricke and S. P. Zack. 2012. Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36:1-122 [J. Bloch/J. Bloch]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 154182: authorized by Jonathan Bloch, entered by Jonathan Bloch on 30.01.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Paramyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918 rodent about 5 meters below WW-95 in the intermittent red (IR)
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Palaeanodon cf. parvulus Matthew 1918 placental | |
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Ectocion osbornianus Cope 1882 condylarth
Phenacodus intermedius Granger 1915 condylarth notes presence of two additional specimens "~10-20 m below the intermittent red (IR)" and another additional specimen "from slightly below WW-95"
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