Vermillion Creek (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Vermilion Creek

Where: Moffat County, Colorado (40.6° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 91.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Niland Tongue Member (Wasatch Formation), Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: C. L. Gazin. 1965. Early Eocene mammalian faunas and their environment in the vicinity of the Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 19:171-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 15885: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998

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Taxonomic list

• close to the East Hiawatha locality (see)
center sec 32 T 12 N R 101 W
list repeated by Roehler 1987, who gives the correct spelling
Lysitean?
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys copei Loomis 1907 rodent
 Artiodactyla - Homacodontidae
Hexacodus cf. pelodes Gazin 1952 even-toed ungulate
 Insectivora -
Insectivora indet. Bowdich 1821 insectivoran
"possibly Diacodon"