WW-112 (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)

• lowest mottled red and gray above Red1; possibly = Purple 1, but more likely an intermittent red between

•Red 1 and Purple 1.

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

• lowest mottled red and gray above Red1; possibly = Purple 1, but more likely an intermittent red between

•Red 1 and 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 154275: 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
Additional specimens said to be "4 m below WW-112"
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Mimoperadectes labrus Bown and Rose 1979 marsupial