Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 91.9° 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 UMMP
Primary reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 15831: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Pristichampsus sp. Gervais 1853 crocodilian | |
Melanosaurus maximus Gilmore 1928 squamates | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Phenacolemurinae indet. Simpson 1955 primate | |
Arfia junnei Gingerich 1989 creodont | |
"Miacis winkleri" = Gracilocyon winkleri
"Miacis winkleri" = Gracilocyon winkleri Gingerich 1983 placental | |
Pachyaena ossifraga Cope 1874 condylarth | |
Copecion davisi Gingerich 1989 condylarth | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Gastropoda | |
Pleuroceridae indet. Thiele 1929 snail |