Where: Washakie County County, Wyoming (44.1° 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)
• anthills and flats on avulsion into Big Red.
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"lithified, paleosol/pedogenic, muddy
Collection methods: surface (float), anthill
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 154271: authorized by Jonathan Bloch, entered by Jonathan Bloch on 06.02.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Hyopsodus loomisi McKenna 1960 condylarth | |
Ignacius graybullianus Bown and Rose 1976 primate some ambiguity as the specimen is listed as being from locality "WW-97S"
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Teilhardina brandti Gingerich 1993 tarsier | |
Cantius torresi Gingerich 1986 primate | |
Tuscahomys cf. major Dawson and Beard 2007 rodent | |
Prototomus deimos Gingerich and Deutsch 1989 creodont | |
Uintacyon gingerichi Heinrich et al. 2008 placental | |
Didymictis leptomylus Cope 1880 placental | |
Copecion davisi Gingerich 1989 condylarth
Ectocion parvus Granger 1915 condylarth | |
"Hyracotherium sandrae" = Sifrhippus sandrae
"Hyracotherium sandrae" = Sifrhippus sandrae Gingerich 1989 horse | |
Chriacus badgleyi Gingerich 1989 condylarth | |
Diacodexis ilicis Gingerich 1989 even-toed ungulate | |
Mimoperadectes labrus Bown and Rose 1979 marsupial |