PBDB Collection

SC-2: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Proteutheria - Palaeoryctidae

	Eoryctes melanus Thewissen and Gingerich 1989
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae

	Hyopsodus loomisi McKenna 1960	Gingerich 1989
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Hyracotherium grangeri Gingerich 1989	Gingerich 1991
Mammalia - Perissodactyla

	Cardiolophus radinskyi n. sp. Gingerich 1991	Gingerich 1991
	(6 measurements)
Mammalia - Acreodi

	Wyolestes apheles Gingerich 1981	Gingerich 1981
	DUPLICATE REF 1643 or 1644
Mammalia - Creodonta

	Prolimnocyon haematus Gingerich and Deutsch 1989	Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae

	Arfia shoshoniensis (Matthew and Granger 1915)	Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
	probable type locality

	Galecyon mordax (Matthew and Granger 1915)	Gingerich and Deutsch 1989

	Prototomus martis Gingerich and Deutsch 1989	Gingerich and Deutsch 1989

	Prototomus phobos Gingerich and Deutsch 1989	Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Mammalia - Metacheiromyidae

	Palaeanodon nievelti Gingerich 1989	Gingerich 1989
Mammalia

	Miacis deutschi Gingerich 1983	Gingerich 1983
Mammalia - Viverravidae

	Viverravus rosei Polly 1997	Polly 1997

	Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915	Polly 1997

	Viverravus politus Matthew and Granger 1915	Polly 1997
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae

	Arctodontomys wilsoni (Szalay 1969)	Gunnell 1985
Mammalia - Primates - Micromomyidae

	Micromomys willwoodensis n. sp. Rose and Bown 1982	Rose and Bown 1982
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

	Cantius mckennai (Gingerich and Simons 1977)	Maas and O'Leary 1996
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae

	Apheliscus chydaeus Gingerich 1994	Gingerich 1994
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Wyoming	County:	Park
Coordinates:	44.8° North, 109.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	49.7° North, 91.9° 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:	54.9 - 50.5 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Willwood
Local section:	Clark	Local bed:	1720 m
Local order:	bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some genera
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	UMMP
Taxonomic list comments:meter level estimated from figure of Bowen and Bloch 2002 Wa-2

Metadata

Also known as:	Princeton University Camp #1 (1928)
Database number:	15727
Authorizer:	J. Alroy	Enterer:	J. Alroy
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-09-27 00:00:00	Last modified:	2009-04-04 13:47:51
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

3403.

J. G. M. Thewissen and P. D. Gingerich. 1989. Skull and Endocranial Cast of Eoructes melanus, a New Palaeoryctid (Mammalia: Insectivora) from the Early Eocene of Western North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(4):459-470 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

1643		P. D. Gingerich. 1981. Radiation of Early Cenozoic Didymoconidae (Condylarthra, Mesonychia) in Asia, with a New Genus from the Early Eocene of Western North America. Journal of Mammalogy 62(3):526-538 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
1650		P. D. Gingerich. 1983. Paleocene-Eocene faunal zones and a preliminary analysis of Laramide structural deformation in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 34:185-195 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1657		P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1660		P. D. Gingerich. 1991. Systematics and Evolution of Early Eocene Perissodactyla (Mammalia) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(8):181-213 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
1662		P. D. Gingerich. 1994. New species of Apheliscus, Haplomylus, and Hyopsodus (Mammalia, Condylarthra) from the late Paleocene of southern Montana and early Eocene of northwestern Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 29(6):119-134 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/K. Beard]
1666		P. D. Gingerich and H. A. Deutsch. 1989. Systematics and Evolution of Early Eocene Hyaenodontidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(13):327-391 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
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]
2336		M. C. Maas and M. O'Leary. 1996. Evolution of molar enamel microstructure in North American Notharctidae (primates). Journal of Human Evolution 31 [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]
2963		K. D. Rose and T. M. Bown. 1982. New Plesiadapiform Primates from the Eocene of Wyoming and Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2(1):63-69 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]