Where: Wyoming (44.5° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 91.5° 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 46728: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Will Clyde on 24.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Allognathosuchus sp. Mook 1921 crocodilian | |
Melanosaurus sp. Gilmore 1928 squamates | |
Mammalia | |
Coryphodon armatus Cope 1872 pantodont | |
Microsyops cardiorestes Gunnell 1989 primate | |
Cantius abditus Gingerich and Simons 1977 primate | |
"Teilhardina americana" = Bownomomys americanus
"Teilhardina americana" = Bownomomys americanus Bown 1976 tarsier | |
"Hyracotherium pernix" = Arenahippus pernix
"Hyracotherium pernix" = Arenahippus pernix Marsh 1876 horse | |
Diacodexis metsiacus Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate | |
Didymictis protenus Cope 1874 placental | |
Miacis exiguus Matthew and Granger 1915 placental | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar |