MP-171 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.6° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 91.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Primary reference: P. D. Gingerich and H. A. Deutsch. 1989. Systematics and Evolution of Early Eocene Hyaenodontidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(13):327-391 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 15706: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Leah Gannon and Will Clyde

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• may be in Big Horn County, Wa-5
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Allognathosuchus sp. Mook 1921 crocodilian
Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. Owen 1845 pantodont
 Cimolesta - Esthonychidae
Esthonyx bisulcatus Cope 1874 tillodont
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus simplex Loomis 1905 condylarth
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Prototomus robustus Matthew and Granger 1915 creodont
Prototomus secundarius Cope 1875 creodont
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Hyracotherium pernix" = Arenahippus pernix
"Hyracotherium pernix" = Arenahippus pernix Marsh 1876 horse
 Perissodactyla -
Homogalax protapirinus, "Hyracotherium cristatum" = Systemodon tapirinus
Homogalax protapirinus Wortman 1896 odd-toed ungulate
"Hyracotherium cristatum" = Systemodon tapirinus Cope 1875 odd-toed ungulate
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys copei Loomis 1907 rodent