SC-161: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Ectypodus tardus (Jepsen 1940)
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Apheliscus chydaeus Gingerich 1994
Gingerich 1994
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870
Rose 1981
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Cardiolophus radinskyi Gingerich 1991
Gingerich 1991
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hyracotherium grangeri Gingerich 1989
Gingerich 1991
recombined as Sifrhippus grangeri
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Dipsalidictis transiens (Matthew and Granger 1915)
Gunnell and Gingerich 1991
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
Prototomus phobos Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Acarictis ryani n. sp. Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Galecyon mordax (Matthew and Granger 1915)
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Didymictis leptomylus Cope 1880
Polly 1997
Didymictis protenus (Cope 1874)
Polly 1997
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915
Polly 1997
Mammalia - Metacheiromyidae
Palaeanodon nievelti Gingerich 1989
Gingerich 1989
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Arctodontomys wilsoni (Szalay 1969)
Gunnell 1985
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Cantius ralstoni (Matthew 1915)
Maas and O'Leary 1996
see common names

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:54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Willwood
Local section:Clark Local bed:1665 m
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Museum repositories:UMMP
Taxonomic list comments:meter level given by Gunnell and Gingerich 1991
Metadata
Database number:15788
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:40
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2158. D. W. Krause. 1982. Multituberculates from the Wasatchian Land-Mammal Age, Early Eocene, of Western North America. Journal of Paleontology 56(2):271-294 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

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]
1745 G. F. Gunnell and P. D. Gingerich. 1991. Systematics and Evolution of Late Paleocene and Early Eocene Oxyaenidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(7):141-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
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]
2953 K. D. Rose. 1981. The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 26:1-197 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]