PBDB Collection

Schaff Quarry: Tiffanian, Wyoming

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae

	Amia fragosa Jordan 1927	Estes 1975	1 specimen
	PU 21174, three vertebral centra
Reptilia - Anguidae

	Pancelosaurus piger (Gilmore 1928)	Estes 1975	1 specimen
	recombined as Odaxosaurus piger
	PU 19466, left dentary
Reptilia

	Exostinus rugosus Gilmore 1942	Estes 1975	1 specimen
	synonym of Restes rugosus
	PU 19487, fragment of left maxilla
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Ptilodontidae

	Prochetodon cavus Jepsen 1940	Krause 1987
	(5 measurements)
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Microcosmodontidae

	Microcosmodon conus Jepsen 1930
Mammalia - Erinaceidae

	Litolestes ignotus Jepsen 1930	Novacek et al. 1985
	"Schaff Quarry southwest"
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae

	Wyonycteris microtis n. sp. Secord 2008	Secord 2008
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae

	Princetonia yalensis Gingerich 1989	Gingerich 1989
Mammalia - Viverravidae

	Protictis schaffi n. sp. Gingerich and Winkler 1985	Gingerich and Winkler 1985
	= Viverravus politus Matthew and Granger 1915	Alroy 2002
	"cf. V. sp." of Rose 1981a, said to be new
Mammalia - Primates - Micromomyidae

	Micromomys silvercouleei Szalay 1973	Gunnell 1989
	= Micromomys gunnelli n. sp. Secord 2008	Secord 2008
	recombined as Foxomomys gunnelli

	Micromomys gunnelli n. sp. Secord 2008	Secord 2008
	recombined as Foxomomys gunnelli
Mammalia - Primates - Plesiadapidae

	Chiromyoides cf. potior Gingerich 1975	Gingerich 1976
	= Chiromyoides sp. Stehlin 1916	Alroy 2002
	species-level i.d. clearly based on circular stratigraphic reasoning

	Plesiadapis fodinatus Jepsen 1930	Gingerich 1976
	(6 measurements)
Mammalia - Primates - Carpolestidae

	Carpolestes dubius Jepsen 1930	Rose 1975
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae

	Phenacolemur pagei Jepsen 1930	Rose 1981
	= Dillerlemur pagei Jepsen 1930	Alroy 2002
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela

	Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876	Estes 1975	1 specimen
	PU 19500, a questionably referred humerus
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Wyoming	County:	Park
Coordinates:	44.9° North, 108.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	50.8° North, 88.4° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Paleogene	Epoch:	Paleocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 1
*Period:	Tertiary
Key time interval:	Tiffanian
Age range of interval:	60.90000 - 56.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Fort Union
Stratigraphy comments: Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation' just below Princeton Quarry in the middle of chron C25r: Secord et al. 2006

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 excludes:	some genera
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Database number:	15065
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, K. Beard	Enterer:	J. Alroy, K. Beard
Modifier:	P. Mannion	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-09-27 00:00:00	Last modified:	2021-03-16 09:27:32
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

2155.

D. W. Krause. 1977. Paleocene Multituberculates (Mammalia) of the Roche Percée Local Fauna, Ravenscrag Formation, Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 159:1-36 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
709		R. Estes. 1975. Lower vertebrates from the Fort Union Formation, Late Paleocene, Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. Herpetologica 31(4):365-385 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]
1635		P. D. Gingerich. 1976. Cranial Anatomy and Evolution of Early Tertiary Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates). University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 15:1-141 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
1657		P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1676		P. D. Gingerich and D. A. Winkler. 1985. Systematics of Paleocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) in the Bighorn Basin and Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(4):87-128 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
1730		G. F. Gunnell. 1989. Evolutionary History of Microsyopoidea (Mammalia, ?Primates) and the Relationship Between Plesiadapiformes and Primates. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 27:1-157 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
2161		D. W. Krause. 1987. Systematic Revision of the Genus Prochetodon (Ptilodontidae, Multituberculata) from the Late Paleocene and Early Eocene of Western North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(8):221-236 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
2668		M. J. Novacek, T. M. Bown, and D. Schankler. 1985. On the classification of early Tertiary Erinaceomorpha (Insectivora, Mammalia). American Museum Novitates 2813:1-22 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
2947		K. D. Rose. 1975. The Carpolestidae: Early Tertiary primates from North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 147(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2953		K. D. Rose. 1981. The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 26:1-197 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
63104		R. Secord. 2008. The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 35:1-192 [K. Beard/K. Beard]