Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.8° N, 109.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.8° N, 92.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
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: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 27353: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.12.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Mammalia | |
Copecion davisi Gingerich 1989 condylarth | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Gastropoda | |
Holospira sp. Martens 1860 slug |