PBDB Collection

Despair Quarry: Wasatchian, Colorado

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae

	Ectypodus cf. childei (Kühne 1969)	Sloan 1981
Mammalia - Leptictidae

	Palaeictops tauricinerei (Jepsen 1930)
	= cf. Prodiacodon tauricinerei Jepsen 1930	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Apatemyidae

	Apatemys cf. kayi (Simpson 1929)
	= Labidolemur kayi Simpson 1929	Gunnell 1989
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae

	Coryphodon sp. (Owen 1845)
	original and current combination Lophiodon (Coryphodon)
Mammalia - Esthonychidae

	Esthonyx spatularius Cope 1880	Gunnell 1989
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Amphilemuridae

	Entomolestes nitens Matthew 1918
	= cf. Macrocranion nitens Matthew 1918	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae

	Apheliscus sp. Cope 1875	Rose 1981
	: "A. nitidus" of McKenna

	Haplomylus speirianus (Cope 1880)
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae

	Hyopsodus miticulus (Cope 1874)
	= Hyopsodus simplex Loomis 1905	Redline 1997
	replaces ID of Gunnell 1989

	Hyopsodus loomisi McKenna 1960
Mammalia - Acreodi - Mesonychidae

	Pachyaena ? ossifraga Cope 1874
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae

	Prototomus viverrinus Cope 1874
	= Prototomus deimos Gingerich and Deutsch 1989	Polly 1993
	(explicit referral)

	Prototomus martis Gingerich and Deutsch 1989	Polly 1993
Mammalia - Creodonta

	Prolimnocyon haematus Gingerich and Deutsch 1989	Polly 1993
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae

	Oxyaena sp. Cope 1874
	= Dipsalidictis transiens Matthew and Granger 1915	Gunnell and Gingerich 1991
Mammalia

	Miacis exiguus Matthew and Granger 1915
	probably OK, see Gingerich 1983a
Mammalia - Viverravidae

	Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915

	Didymictis protenus (Cope 1874)
	= Didymictis leptomylus Cope 1880	Polly 1997
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae

	Hyracotherium angustidens (Cope 1875)
	= Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Arenahippus grangeri (Gingerich 1989)	Froehlich 2002
	recombined as Sifrhippus grangeri
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae

	Phenacodus primaevus (Cope 1873)
	= Phenacodus sp. Cope 1873	Alroy 2002

	Phenacodus matthewi Simpson 1935
	= Phenacodus vortmani Cope 1880	Thewissen 1990
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae

	Wasatchia sp. Sinclair 1914
	= Bunophorus sp. Sinclair 1914	Alroy 2002

	Diacodexis metsiacus (Cope 1882)
	= Diacodexis primus Krishtalka and Stucky 1985	Krishtalka and Stucky 1985
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae

	Nyctitherium sp. Marsh 1872
	definitely not Marsholestes
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae

	Paramys sp. Leidy 1871
	"A"
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

	Pelycodus mckennai Gingerich and Simons 1977
	= Cantius mckennai Gingerich and Simons 1977	Gingerich and Simons 1977
	"P. ralstoni"
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae

	Tetonius homunculus (Cope 1882)
	= Tetonius sp. Matthew 1915	Alroy 2002

	Trogolemur sp. Matthew 1909
	= Pseudotetonius ambiguus Matthew 1915	Bown 1974
	seconded by Bown and Rose 1987; type of "Mckennamorphus despairensis" of Szalay 1976
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae

	Cynodontomys alfi McKenna 1960
	= Microsyops angustidens Matthew 1915	Gunnell 1985

	Niptomomys doreenae McKenna 1960
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae

	Phenacolemur jepseni Simpson 1955
	= cf. Simpsonlemur jepseni Simpson 1955	Alroy 2002
Mammalia

	Peradectes protinnominatus McKenna 1960
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Colorado	County:	Moffat
Coordinates:	40.6° North, 108.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	45.4° North, 91.9° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
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

Lithology and environment

Environment:

terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection size:	658 specimens
Museum repositories:	UCMP

Metadata

Also known as:	UCMP V-5352
Database number:	15480
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-09-27 00:00:00	Last modified:	2009-07-15 19:53:42
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

2528.

M. C. McKenna. 1960. Fossil Mammalia from the early Wasatchian Four Mile fauna, Eocene of northwest Colorado. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 37(1):1-130 [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]
1109		T. M. Bown. 1974. Notes on some Early Eocene anaptomorphine primates. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 13(1):9-26 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
53105		D. J. Froehlich. 2002. Quo vadis Eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134:141-256 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
1675		P. D. Gingerich and E. L. Simons. 1977. Systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of early Eocene Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) in North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 24(22):245-279 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1728		G. F. Gunnell. 1985. Systematics of Early Eocene Microsyopinae (Mammalia, Primates) in the Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(2):51-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
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]
1745		G. F. Gunnell and P. D. Gingerich. 1991. Systematics and Evolution of Late Paleocene and Early Eocene Oxyaenidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(7):141-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
2183		L. Krishtalka and R. K. Stucky. 1985. Revision of the Eocene Wind River Faunas, Early Eocene of Central Wyoming. Part 7. Revision of Diacodexis (Mammalian, Artiodactyla). Annals of Carnegie Museum 54(14):413-486 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
2785		P. D. Polly. 1993. Hyaenodontidae (Creodonta, Mammalia) from the Early Eocene Four Mile Fauna and their biostratigraphic implications. PaleoBios 14(4):1-10 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2787		P. D. Polly. 1997. Ancestry and Species Definition in Paleontology: A Stratocladistic Analysis of Paleocene-Eocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(1):1-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
6223		A. D. Redline. 1997. Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 13. Systematics and phylogenetic pattern of early Eocene Hyopsodus (Mammalia: Condylarthra). Annals of Carnegie Museum 66(1):1-81 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
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]
3195		R. E. Sloan. 1981. Systematics of Paleocene multituberculates from the San Juan Basin, NewMexico. In S. G. Lucas, J. K. Rigby Jr., B. S. Kues (eds.), Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology 127-160 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
3401		J. G. M. Thewissen. 1990. Evolution of Paleocene and Eocene Phenacodontidae (Mammalia, Condylarthra). University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 29:1-107 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]