MP-179 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (44.6° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 91.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

• Wa-4

• 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 46753: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Will Clyde on 24.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon radians Cope 1872 pantodont
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus latidens Denison 1937 condylarth
 Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Haplomylus scottianus Gingerich 1994 elephant shrew
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Phenacodus trilobatus Cope 1881 condylarth
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Hyracotherium pernix" = Arenahippus pernix
"Hyracotherium pernix" = Arenahippus pernix Marsh 1876 horse
 Perissodactyla -
Homogalax protapirinus Wortman 1896 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Diacodexeidae
"Diacodexis robustus" = Bunophorus robustus, Diacodexis metsiacus
"Diacodexis robustus" = Bunophorus robustus Sinclair 1914 even-toed ungulate
Diacodexis metsiacus Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate
 Theriamorpha - Viverravidae
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915 placental
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Arfia opisthotoma Matthew 1901 creodont
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent
 Primates - Omomyidae
Tetonius matthewi Bown and Rose 1987 tarsier
originally entered as "Tetonius mathewi"
 Primates - Notharctidae
Cantius trigonodus Matthew 1915 primate
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Allognathosuchus sp. Mook 1921 crocodilian