Elk Creek (400 m) (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as YPM 348

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 90.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: D. M. Schankler. 1980. Faunal Zonation of the Willwood Formation in the Central Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 24:99-114 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 15535: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

• exact level uncertain
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Epoicotheriidae
Tubulodon atopum Rose et al. 1978 placental
 Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Oxyaenidae indet. Cope 1877 creodont
"Oxyaena sp. 1"