Hardscrabble Creek/Papoose Creek (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Teton County, Wyoming (43.9° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 94.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Lower Variegated Sequence Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: M. C. McKenna. 1980. Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance, Togwotee Pass area, northwestern Wyoming. Aspects of Vertebrate History: Essays in Honor of Edwin Harris Colbert, L. L. Jacobs (ed.), Museum of Northern Arizona Press 323-343 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

PaleoDB collection 15943: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

• presumably all taxa are present at Hardscrabble Creek except where noted
Mammalia
 Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Haplomylus sp. Matthew 1915 elephant shrew
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870 condylarth
 Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Oxyaena gulo Matthew and Granger 1915 creodont
 Placentalia -
Artiodactyla indet. even-toed ungulate
additional "Diacodexis sp." and additional artiodactyl
 Artiodactyla - Diacodexeidae
Diacodexis secans Cope 1881 even-toed ungulate
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Ectocion osbornianus Cope 1882 condylarth
"Papoose Creek only"
 Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841 odd-toed ungulate
 Rodentia - Paramyidae
Paramyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918 rodent
 Primates - Paromomyidae
Phenacolemurinae indet. Simpson 1955 primate
 Primates - Adapidae
Adapidae indet. Trouessart 1879 primate
 Cimolesta - Esthonychidae
Esthonyx spatularius Cope 1880 tillodont
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. Owen 1845 pantodont