Where: Wyoming (44.4° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 91.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• Wa-6
• 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 46699: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Will Clyde on 24.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
? Ectoganus gliriformes taeniodont | |
Coryphodon lobatus Cope 1877 pantodont | |
Esthonyx bisulcatus Cope 1874 tillodont | |
Palaeictops bicuspis Cope 1880 eutherian | |
Hyopsodus lysitensis Gingerich 1974 condylarth
Hyopsodus minor Loomis 1905 condylarth | |
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915 placental
Didymictis protenus Cope 1874 placental | |
Vassacyon promicrodon Wortman and Matthew 1899 placental
Vulpavus australis Matthew and Granger 1915 placental
Miacis petilus Gingerich 1983 placental | |
Prototomus secundarius Cope 1875 creodont | |
Oxyaena forcipata Cope 1874 creodont | |
Pachyaena gracilis Matthew and Granger 1915 condylarth | |
Diacodexis metsiacus Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate | |
"Hyracotherium pernix" = Arenahippus pernix
"Hyracotherium pernix" = Arenahippus pernix Marsh 1876 horse | |
Heptodon calciculus, "Hyracotherium cristatum" = Systemodon tapirinus
Heptodon calciculus Cope 1880 odd-toed ungulate
"Hyracotherium cristatum" = Systemodon tapirinus Cope 1875 odd-toed ungulate | |
Phenacodus vortmani Cope 1880 condylarth | |
Anacodon ursidens Cope 1882 condylarth
Chriacus gallinae Matthew and Granger 1915 condylarth | |
Cantius abditus Gingerich and Simons 1977 primate
Cantius frugivorus Cope 1875 primate | |
Phenacolemur sp. Matthew 1915 primate | |
Absarokius abbotti Loomis 1906 tarsier | |
? Niptomomys sp. McKenna 1960 primate
Microsyops latidens Cope 1882 primate | |
? Paramys v. large sp. Leidy 1871 rodent
Paramys taurus Korth 1984 rodent | |
"Peratherium marsupium" = Herpetotherium marsupium
"Peratherium marsupium" = Herpetotherium marsupium Troxell 1923 marsupial | |
Reptilia | |
Glyptosaurus sp. Marsh 1871 squamates | |
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar |