PBDB Collection

Big Piney 3 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-77064

Where: Sublette County, Wyoming (42.7° N, 110.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 93.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: main body Member (Wasatch Formation), Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

• "∼35 m below the contact of the Wasatch Formation with the Scheggs Bed of the Tipton Shale Member of the Green River Formation" and now assigned to the main body of the Wasatch Formation per Smith and Holroyd 2003.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP, USNM

Primary reference: P. D. Polly. 1996. The skeleton of Gazinocyon vulpeculus gen. et. comb nov. and the cladistic relationships of Hyaenodontidae (Eutheria, Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(2):303-319 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 15454: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.04.1997, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Terri Cleary

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• this is almost due N of Big Piney and west of the New Fork- Big Sandy area; Gazin's La Barge localities are S of Big Piney, except some about 12 mi due N on Muddy Creek that are referred to as "Red Buttes" or "Muddy Creek" elsewhere in the literature

•This locality previously referred to Knight Mbr. or LaBarge Mbr. but these rocks placed in main body of Wasatch Fm. by Roehler 1992.

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Gnathostomata
-	Osteichthyes indet.¹ Osteichthyes indet.¹ bony fish
Mammalia
Primates - Notharctidae	Cantius sp.¹, Cantius frugivorus¹ Cantius sp.¹ Simons 1962 primate Cantius frugivorus¹ Cope 1875 primate
Primates - Microsyopidae	Microsyops knightensis¹ Microsyops knightensis¹ Gazin 1952 primate
Primates - Omomyidae	Absarokius abbotti¹ Absarokius abbotti¹ Loomis 1906 tarsier
Rodentia - Ischyromyidae	Paramys copei¹ Paramys copei¹ Loomis 1907 rodent
Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae	Gazinocyon vulpeculus Gazinocyon vulpeculus Matthew and Granger 1915 creodont
Creodonta -	"Prolimnocyon elisabethae" = Prolimnocyon antiquus¹ "Prolimnocyon elisabethae" = Prolimnocyon antiquus¹ Matthew and Granger 1915 creodont entered as "Prolimnocyon elizabethae"
Theriamorpha - Viverravidae	Viverravus lutosus¹ Viverravus lutosus¹ Gazin 1952 placental
Perissodactyla - Equidae	Orohippus proteros¹, "Hyracotherium venticolum" = Protorohippus venticolum¹, "Hyracotherium index" = Minippus index¹ Orohippus proteros¹ Korth and Evander 1982 horse "Hyracotherium venticolum" = Protorohippus venticolum¹ Cope 1881 horse "Hyracotherium index" = Minippus index¹ Cope 1873 horse
Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae	Lambdotherium popoagicum¹, Eotitanops borealis¹ Lambdotherium popoagicum¹ Cope 1880 brontothere Eotitanops borealis¹ Cope 1880 brontothere
Perissodactyla -	Heptodon calciculus¹ Heptodon calciculus¹ Cope 1880 odd-toed ungulate entered as "Heptacodon calciculus"
Artiodactyla - Homacodontidae	Hexacodus pelodes¹ Hexacodus pelodes¹ Gazin 1952 even-toed ungulate
Artiodactyla - Diacodexeidae	Bunophorus macropternus¹, Diacodexis sp.¹ Bunophorus macropternus¹ Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate Diacodexis sp.¹ Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate
Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae	Hyopsodus wortmani¹ Hyopsodus wortmani¹ Osborn 1902 condylarth
Cimolesta - Apatemyidae	Apatemys sp.¹ Apatemys sp.¹ Marsh 1872 eutherian
Cimolesta - Esthonychidae	Esthonyx sp.¹ Esthonyx sp.¹ Cope 1874 tillodont
Reptilia
Testudines -	Testudines indet.¹ Testudines indet.¹ Batsch 1788 turtle
Squamata - Anguidae	"cf. Eoglyptosaurus donohoei" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris² "cf. Eoglyptosaurus donohoei" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris² Marsh 1871 squamates UCMP 118364, partial anterior skeleton
Squamata -	Lacertilia indet.¹ Lacertilia indet.¹ lizard
Loricata -	Crocodylia indet.¹ Crocodylia indet.¹ crocodilian
unclassified
-	Mollusca indet.¹ Mollusca indet.¹ Linnaeus 1758

¹Smith and Holroyd 2003; ²Sullivan 1979