WW-79 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Washakie County County, Wyoming (44.2° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 91.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Wa-0 mammal zone, Willwood Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• red mudstone, probably Purple 1

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"lithified, paleosol/pedogenic, muddy

• red mudstone, probably Purple 1

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 154259: authorized by Jonathan Bloch, entered by Jonathan Bloch on 06.02.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Tuscahomys cf. major Dawson and Beard 2007 rodent
Tuscahomys worlandensis Rose et al. 2012 rodent
type locality of Tuscahomys worlandensis
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Hyracotherium sandrae" = Sifrhippus sandrae
"Hyracotherium sandrae" = Sifrhippus sandrae Gingerich 1989 horse
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Copecion davisi Gingerich 1989 condylarth
Ectocion parvus Granger 1915 condylarth
 Theriamorpha - Viverravidae
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915 placental
 Theriamorpha -
Uintacyon gingerichi Heinrich et al. 2008 placental