Sand Butte Level 5: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates
Primates indet. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Notharctus limosus Gazin 1952
    = Cantius nunienus Cope 1881
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841
    = Equidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Meniscotherium cf. robustum Thorpe 1934
    = Meniscotherium cf. chamense Cope 1874
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae
Diacodexis sp. Cope 1882
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Hexacodus sp. Gazin 1952
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus wortmani Osborn 1902
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. (Owen 1845)
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]