Sand Butte Level 5: Wasatchian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Primates
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Primates indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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Notharctus limosus
Gazin 1952
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= Cantius nunienus
Cope 1881
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hyracotherium sp.
Owen 1841
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= Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Meniscotherium cf. robustum
Thorpe 1934
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= Meniscotherium cf. chamense
Cope 1874
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Diacodexeidae
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Diacodexis sp.
Cope 1882
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Mammalia
- Homacodontidae
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Hexacodus sp.
Gazin 1952
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Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus wortmani
Osborn 1902
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Mammalia
- Coryphodontidae
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Coryphodon sp.
(Owen 1845)
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original and current combination Lophiodon (Coryphodon) | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Sweetwater |
Coordinates: | 41.7° North, 109.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 46.6° North, 92.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Wasatchian | ||
Age range of interval: | 55.80000 - 50.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Wasatch |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:Gazin's account makes it unclear whether this is in the Main Body or the Niland Tongue Lostcabinian |
Metadata
Database number: | 15724 | ||
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:
1618. | C. L. Gazin. 1965. Early Eocene mammalian faunas and their environment in the vicinity of the Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 19:171-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |