WW-119: Early Eocene, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
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Peradectes protinnominatus
McKenna 1960
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| "Cf. Peradectes protinnominatus" | ||||||||||
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Ectoganus cf. lobdelli
(Simpson 1929)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| also mentions an additional specimen of this species from "unnumbered locality just above Red 1: USNM 527722 (associated canine, incisor, cheek teeth, and bone fragments)." | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
- Hyaenodontidae
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Arfia junnei
Gingerich 1989
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Chriacus badgleyi
Gingerich 1989
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hyracotherium sandrae
Gingerich 1989
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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Cantius torresi
Gingerich 1986
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| said to be "~3 m below WW-119" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Washakie County |
| Coordinates: | 44.1° 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: | 37 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Regional section: | Bighorn Basin | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: sandy white and gray just below Upper Purple 2; probably same bed as WW-101. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: sandy white and gray just below Upper Purple 2; probably same bed as WW-101. | |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 154282 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Bloch | Enterer: | J. Bloch | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-02-06 14:25:27 | Last modified: | 2014-02-06 14:25:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-02-06 14:25:27 |
| 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] |