Purple Hills: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Cantius abditus (Gingerich and Simons 1977)
may include specimen from USGS D-2003 at the 479 m level of Rose et al. 1999
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae
Phenacolemur sp. Matthew 1915
    = Phenacolemurinae indet. Simpson 1955
Alroy 2002
said to be new
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops latidens (Cope 1882)
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Absarokius metoecus Bown and Rose 1987
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Oxyaena sp. Cope 1874
    = Oxyaenidae indet. Cope 1877
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
cf. Prototomus sp. Cope 1874
Tritemnodon cf. hians (Cope 1877)
    = Tritemnodon cf. strenuus Cope 1875
Alroy 2002
Mammalia
Miacis exiguus Matthew and Granger 1915
Mammalia - Carnivora - Miacidae
Uintacyon sp. Leidy 1873
    = Miacidae indet. Cope 1880
Alroy 2002
Mammalia
Vulpavus canavus (Cope 1881)
Vulpavus australis Matthew and Granger 1915
Vassacyon cf. promicrodon (Wortman and Matthew 1899)
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915
Didymictis sp. Cope 1875
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Xenicohippus grangeri Bown and Kihm 1981
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Helaletidae
Helaletidae indet. Osborn 1892
new helaletid of Bown
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Phenacodus brachypternus Cope 1882
recombined as Copecion brachypternus
Phenacodus vortmani (Cope 1880)
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae
Bunophorus sp. Sinclair 1914
Diacodexis metsiacus (Cope 1882)
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Anacodon ursidens Cope 1882
Chriacus sp. Cope 1883
said to be new
Mammalia - Pantolestidae
Palaeosinopa veterrima Matthew 1901
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus cf. miticulus (Cope 1874)
    = Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870
Alroy 2002
Hyopsodus cf. minor Loomis 1905
Mammalia - Esthonychidae
Esthonyx sp. Cope 1874
presumably sensu stricto
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. (Owen 1845)
original and current combination Lophiodon (Coryphodon)
Mammalia - Leptictidae
Palaeictops bicuspis (Cope 1880)
Didelphodus absarokae (Cope 1881)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Big Horn
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 108.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.2° North, 90.8° 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:Willwood
Local section:15MiC Local bed:481
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:458 specimens
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Taxonomic list comments:placed in Bown section by Bown et al.
Metadata
Also known as:USGS Loc. D-1177, 1315, 1316, UMRB1, RB2
Database number:15578
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:40
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
6214. T. M. Bown, K. D. Rose, E. L. Simons and S. L. Wing. 1994. Distribution and stratigraphic correlation of upper Paleocene and lower Eocene fossil mammal and plant localities of the Fort Union, Willwood, and Tatman formations, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1540:1-103 [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]