Powder Wash (Wasatch Formation) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.2° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 93.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: L. Krishtalka and R. K. Stucky. 1984. Middle Eocene marsupials (Mammalia) from northeastern Utah and the mammalian fauna from Powder Wash. Annals of Carnegie Museum 53(2):31-46 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 15716: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

• underlies Green River Fm.
this is the collection reported by Kay 1957 from the "same area" as Powder Wash
Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. Owen 1845 pantodont
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Phenacodontidae indet. Cope 1881 condylarth
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys sp. Leidy 1871 rodent