Where: Wyoming (44.5° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 91.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• Wa-5
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the UMMP
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: W. C. Clyde. 1997. Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. PhD Thesis, University of Michigan [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46682: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Will Clyde on 24.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Coryphodon sp. Owen 1845 pantodont | |
Esthonyx bisulcatus Cope 1874 tillodont | |
Hyopsodus simplex Loomis 1905 condylarth | |
Palaeosinopa veterrima Matthew 1901 placental | |
Vassacyon promicrodon Wortman and Matthew 1899 placental
Vulpavus australis Matthew and Granger 1915 placental | |
Oxyaena forcipata Cope 1874 creodont | |
Diacodexis metsiacus Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate | |
"Hyracotherium pernix" = Arenahippus pernix
"Hyracotherium pernix" = Arenahippus pernix Marsh 1876 horse | |
"Hyracotherium cristatum" = Systemodon tapirinus, Homogalax protapirinus
"Hyracotherium cristatum" = Systemodon tapirinus Cope 1875 odd-toed ungulate
Homogalax protapirinus Wortman 1896 odd-toed ungulate | |
Phenacodus intermedius Granger 1915 condylarth
Phenacodus vortmani Cope 1880 condylarth
Phenacodus trilobatus Cope 1881 condylarth | |
Cantius abditus Gingerich and Simons 1977 primate | |
Pseudotetonius ambiguus Matthew 1915 tarsier | |
Paramys large sp. Leidy 1871 rodent
Paramys sp. Leidy 1871 rodent | |
Reptilia | |
Allognathosuchus sp. Mook 1921 crocodilian | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle |