SC-255: Wasatchian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Microsyopidae
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Microsyops angustidens
(Matthew 1915)
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Gunnell 1985 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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Tetonius sp.
Matthew 1915
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Bown and Rose 1987 | |||||||||
| "matthewi-ambiguus" | ||||||||||
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Pseudotetonius ambiguus
(Matthew 1915)
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Bown and Rose 1987 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuravidae
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Knightomys cremneus
Ivy 1990
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Mammalia
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Miacis exiguus
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Gingerich 1983 | |||||||||
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Vulpavus cf. australis
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Gingerich 1983 | |||||||||
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Vassacyon promicrodon
(Wortman and Matthew 1899)
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Gingerich 1983 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Viverravidae
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Viverravus politus
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Polly 1997 | |||||||||
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Viverravus acutus
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Polly 1997 | |||||||||
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Didymictis protenus
(Cope 1874)
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Polly 1997 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hyracotherium pernix
(Marsh 1876)
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Gingerich 1991 | |||||||||
| recombined as Arenahippus pernix | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
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Homogalax protapirinus
(Wortman 1896)
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Gingerich 1991 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Macroscelidea
- Apheliscidae
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Haplomylus scottianus
Gingerich 1994
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Gingerich 1994 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus latidens
Denison 1937
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Gingerich 1989 | |||||||||
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= Hyopsodus sp.
Leidy 1870
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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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: | 54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
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 based on Bown and Rose 1987: 1520 m added to their figure, which is from the base of the Willwood | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 15805 | ||
| 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:
| 1999. | L. D. Ivy. 1990. Systematics of Late Paleocene and Early Eocene Rodentia (Mammalia) from the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(2):21-70 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 1123 | T. M. Bown and K. D. Rose. 1987. Patterns of Dental Evolution in Early Eocene Anaptomorphine Primates (Omomyidae) from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Paleontological Society Memoir 23:1-162 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] |