Big Piney 3: Wasatchian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Lacertilia
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Lacertilia indet.
Owen 1842
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Anguidae
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cf. Eoglyptosaurus donohoei
(White 1952)
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Sullivan 1979 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Glyptosaurus sylvestris | ||||||||||
UCMP 118364, partial anterior skeleton | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Apatemyidae
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Apatemys sp.
Marsh 1872
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Esthonychidae
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Esthonyx sp.
Cope 1874
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus wortmani
Osborn 1902
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 26 specimens | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Creodonta
- Hyaenodontidae
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Gazinocyon vulpeculus
(Matthew and Granger 1915)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Creodonta
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Prolimnocyon elisabethae
Gazin 1952
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
synonym of Prolimnocyon antiquus | ||||||||||
entered as "Prolimnocyon elizabethae" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Viverravidae
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cf. Viverravus sp.
Marsh 1872
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3 specimens | |||||||||
= Viverravus lutosus
Gazin 1952
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hyracotherium venticolum
(Cope 1881)
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 24 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Protorohippus venticolum | ||||||||||
Orohippus proteros
Korth and Evander 1982
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Hyracotherium index
(Cope 1873)
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 21 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Minippus index | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Lambdotherium popoagicum
Cope 1880
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 21 specimens | ||||||||
Eotitanops borealis
(Cope 1880)
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
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Heptodon calciculus
(Cope 1880)
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 13 specimens | ||||||||
entered as "Heptacodon calciculus" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Homacodontidae
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Hexacodus pelodes
Gazin 1952
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Diacodexeidae
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Bunophorus macropternus
(Cope 1882)
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Diacodexis sp.
Cope 1882
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Paramys copei
Loomis 1907
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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Cantius sp.
Simons 1962
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Cantius frugivorus
(Cope 1875)
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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Absarokius abbotti
(Loomis 1906)
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Microsyopidae
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Microsyops knightensis
(Gazin 1952)
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | 12 specimens | ||||||||
unclassified
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Mollusca indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Smith and Holroyd 2003 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Sublette |
Coordinates: | 42.7° North, 110.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 47.7° North, 93.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Wasatchian | ||
Age range of interval: | 54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Wasatch | Member: | main body | ||
Local section: | GRBsn | Local bed: | 1 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "∼35 m below the contact of the Wasatch Formation with the Scheggs Bed of the Tipton Shale Member of the Green River Formation" and now assigned to the main body of the Wasatch Formation per Smith and Holroyd 2003. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Museum repositories: | UCMP,USNM |
Taxonomic list comments:this is almost due N of Big Piney and west of the New Fork- Big Sandy area; Gazin's La Barge localities are S of Big Piney, except some about 12 mi due N on Muddy Creek that are referred to as "Red Buttes" or "Muddy Creek" elsewhere in the literature This locality previously referred to Knight Mbr. or LaBarge Mbr. but these rocks placed in main body of Wasatch Fm. by Roehler 1992. |
Metadata
Also known as: | UCMP V-77064 | ||
Database number: | 15454 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, P. Barrett | Enterer: | J. Alroy, T. Cleary, P. Holroyd |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1997-04-12 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2012-02-25 19:01:08 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-04-12 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2786. | P. D. Polly. 1996. The skeleton of Gazinocyon vulpeculus gen. et. comb nov. and the cladistic relationships of Hyaenodontidae (Eutheria, Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(2):303-319 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
19815 | K. T. Smith and P. A. Holroyd. 2003. Rare taxa, biostratigraphy, and the Wasatchian-Bridgerian boundary in North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 369:501-511 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
60385 | R. M. Sullivan. 1979. Revision of the Paleogene genus Glyptosaurus (Reptilia, Anguidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 163(1):1-72 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary] |