Upper Wiggins Formation (UW V-77026) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Hot Springs County, Wyoming (43.7° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 97.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wiggins Formation, Uintan (46.2 - 40.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UW

Primary reference: J. G. Eaton. 1985. Paleontology and Correlation of the Eocene Tepee Trail and Wiggins Formations in the North Fork of Owl Creek Area, Southeastern Absaroka Range, Hot Springs County, Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(4) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 16642: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Thisbemys cf. corrugatus Wood 1959 rodent
Paramys cf. copei Loomis 1907 rodent
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Colodon cf. woodi Gazin 1956 tapir
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Epihippus gracilis1 Marsh 1871 horse
 Carnivora - Miacidae
Miocyon sp.2 Matthew 1909 carnivoran
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus uintensis Osborn 1902 condylarth