FG061 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Foster Gulch

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.6° N, 108.4° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 91.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Willwood Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the UMMP

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• Wa-0

Primary reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1991. Systematics and Evolution of Early Eocene Perissodactyla (Mammalia) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(8):181-213 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 15591: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Leah Gannon

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Wa-0
Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon eocaenus2 Owen 1846 pantodont
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Ectocion parvus1 Granger 1915 condylarth
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Hyracotherium sandrae" = Sifrhippus sandrae
"Hyracotherium sandrae" = Sifrhippus sandrae Gingerich 1989 horse