Ferris Formation (UW V-92035): Puercan, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Periptychidae
Periptychus coarctatus Cope 1883
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Carbon
Coordinates: 41.9° North, 106.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.5° North, 84.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Late/Upper Puercan
Key time interval:Puercan
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 63.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ferris
Local section:Ferris Local bed:3405 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: said to be late Puercan
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:UW
Metadata
Also known as:Purple Cave
Database number:14733
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1998-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-10-09 10:58:21
Access level:the public Released:1998-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1419. J. J. Eberle and J. A. Lillegraven. 1998. A new important record of earliest Cenozoic mammalian history: geologic setting, Multituberculata, and Peradectia. Rocky Mountain Geology 33(1):3-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

2236 J. A. Lillegraven and J. J. Eberle. 1999. Vertebrate faunal changes through Lancian and Puercan time in southern Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 73(4):691-710 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]