Where: Wyoming (44.7° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 49.5° N, 91.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• Wa-2?
• 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 46691: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Will Clyde on 24.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870 condylarth | |
Cantius mckennai Gingerich and Simons 1977 primate | |
Dipsalidictis transiens Matthew and Granger 1915 creodont | |
Diacodexis metsiacus Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate | |
Ectocion osbornianus Cope 1882 condylarth
Phenacodus sp. Cope 1873 condylarth | |
"Hyracotherium grangeri" = Sifrhippus grangeri
"Hyracotherium grangeri" = Sifrhippus grangeri Gingerich 1989 horse | |
Haplomylus sp. Matthew 1915 elephant shrew | |
Esthonyx spatularius Cope 1880 tillodont | |
Coryphodon eocaenus Owen 1846 pantodont |