Also known as South Fork of Elk Creek
Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 90.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• "lower Gray Bull beds of the Willwood Formation"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. S. Szalay. 1969. Mixodectidae, Microsyopidae, and the insectivore-primate transition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 140(4):193-330 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88208: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Microsyops wilsoni n. sp." = Arctodontomys wilsoni
"Microsyops wilsoni n. sp." = Arctodontomys wilsoni Szalay 1969 primate |