SC-139: Wasatchian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus sp.
Agassiz 1843
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Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Melanosaurus maximus
Gilmore 1928
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Leidyosuchus sp.
Lambe 1907
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= Crocodylia indet.
Owen 1842
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Alroy 2007 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Allognathosuchus sp.
Mook 1921
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
- Hyaenodontidae
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Hyaenodontidae indet.
Leidy 1869
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| might be Prolimnocyon eerius | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hyracotherium sandrae
Gingerich 1989
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Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Copecion davisi
Gingerich 1989
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Ectocion parvus
Granger 1915
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Paramys taurus
Korth 1984
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Mammalia
- Coryphodontidae
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Coryphodon sp.
(Owen 1845)
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= Coryphodon eocaenus
Owen 1846
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Uhen and Gingerich 1995 | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Urocoptidae
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"Holospira" sp.
Martens 1860
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Park |
| Coordinates: | 44.3° North, 109.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.2° 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: | 54.9 - 50.5 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 6 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UMMP |
| Taxonomic list comments:Wa-0 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 15780 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 00:31:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 19636 | J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 3476 | M. D. Uhen and P. D. Gingerich. 1995. Evolution of Coryphodon (Mammalia, Pantodonta) in the late Paleocene and early Eocene of Northwestern Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 29(10):259-289 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |