WW-71: Early Eocene, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
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Mimoperadectes labrus
Bown and Rose 1979
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus loomisi
McKenna 1960
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Viverravidae
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Didymictis leptomylus
Cope 1880
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6 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Chriacus badgleyi
Gingerich 1989
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Diacodexeidae
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Diacodexis ilicis
Gingerich 1989
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hyracotherium sandrae
Gingerich 1989
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Copecion davisi
Gingerich 1989
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Phenacodus intermedius
Granger 1915
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Ectocion parvus
Granger 1915
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cylindrodontidae
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Tuscahomys cf. major
Dawson and Beard 2007
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Macroscelidea
- Amphilemuridae
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Macrocranion junnei
Smith et al. 2002
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Washakie County |
| Coordinates: | 44.2° North, 107.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.7° North, 91.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Early Eocene | Mammal zone: | Wa-0 |
| Age range of interval: | 56 - 47.8 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Willwood | ||
| Local section: | Sand Creek Divide | Local bed: | 12 m |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Regional section: | Bighorn Basin | Regional bed: | sandy cut between Purples 2 and 3 |
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: "sandy cut" | |
| Environment: | fine channel fill |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Jon’s Hill | ||
| Database number: | 154251 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Bloch | Enterer: | J. Bloch |
| Modifier: | J. Bloch | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-02-06 11:48:15 | Last modified: | 2014-02-06 11:49:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-02-06 11:48:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 49988. | K. D. Rose, A. E. Chew, R. H. Dunn, M. J. Kraus, H. C. Fricke and S. P. Zack. 2012. Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36:1-122 [J. Bloch/J. Bloch] |