Also known as USGS Loc. D-1326
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
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: T. M. Bown, K. D. Rose, E. L. Simons and S. L. Wing. 1994. Distribution and stratigraphic correlation of upper Paleocene and lower Eocene fossil mammal and plant localities of the Fort Union, Willwood, and Tatman formations, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1540:1-103 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 15575: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
"Absarokius abbotti" was reported by Bown and Rose 1987 but is omitted; discussed in text??
Mammalia | |
Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870 condylarth
Hyopsodus cf. minor Loomis 1905 condylarth | |
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Microsyops latidens Cope 1882 primate | |
Palaeosinopa veterrima Matthew 1901 placental | |
Viverravus sp. Marsh 1872 placental
Didymictis sp. Cope 1875 placental | |
Vulpavus sp. Marsh 1871 placental
Miacis cf. exiguus Matthew and Granger 1915 placental | |
Miacidae indet. Cope 1880 carnivoran | |
Tritemnodon sp. Matthew 1906 creodont
Prototomus mordax creodont | |
Bunophorus sp. Sinclair 1914 even-toed ungulate
"Diacodexis robustus" = Bunophorus robustus Sinclair 1914 even-toed ungulate
Diacodexis metsiacus Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate | |
Anacodon ursidens Cope 1882 condylarth | |
Phenacodus vortmani Cope 1880 condylarth | |
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Xenicohippus grangeri Bown and Kihm 1981 horse | |
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Esthonyx cf. bisulcatus Cope 1874 tillodont | |
Coryphodon sp. Owen 1845 pantodont | |
Didelphodus absarokae Cope 1881 eutherian |