Cedar Mountain (UW V-82010): Puercan, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Mammalia
Mammalia - Acreodi - Triisodontidae
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Reptilia - Squamata
Reptilia - Iguanidae
Reptilia - Anguidae
Anguidae indet. Gray 1825
Reptilia
Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)
Reptilia - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882
Reptilia
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae
Reptilia
Reptilia - Crocodylia
    = Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842
Alroy 2007
Reptilia - Crocodylidae
Reptilia
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
"Astractosteus"
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Angiospermae - Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus raynoldsii (Newberry 1868)
Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Cercidiphyllaceae
Cercidiphyllum genetrix (Newberry 1868)
Angiospermae - Cornales - Cornaceae
Cornus nebrascensis Schimper 1874
Angiospermae - Vitales - Vitaceae
"Ampelopsis" acerifolia (Newberry 1868)
Angiospermae - Fagales - Juglandaceae
"Carya" antiquorum Newberry 1868
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Hot Springs/Washakie
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 108.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:54.5° North, 71.9° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Paleocene
Stage: Danian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval: Puercan
Age range of interval: 66 - 63.8 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fort Union
Local section:Cedar Local bed:4
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation'
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:13 specimens
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:UW
Taxonomic list comments:some herps may be from other localities described by Hartman, but the "majority" of them are from here
Metadata
Database number:14805
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
829. J. E. Hartman. 1986. Paleontology and biostratigraphy of lower part of Polecat Bench Formation, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 24(1):11-63 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]

Secondary references:

19636 J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]