PBDB Collection

Lysite: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Amphilemuridae

	Entomolestes nitens Matthew 1918
	recombined as Macrocranion nitens
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae

	Apheliscus insidiosus (Cope 1874)
	= Apheliscus sp. Cope 1875	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae

	Hyopsodus minor Loomis 1905	Redline 1997
	presumably "H. miticulus"

	Hyopsodus powellianus Cope 1884
	confirmed by Redline 1997 (1 measurement)

	Hyopsodus wortmani Osborn 1902
	(1 measurement)
	= Hyopsodus lysitensis Gingerich 1974	Redline 1997
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae

	Phenacodus primaevus (Cope 1873)
	= Phenacodus sp. Cope 1873	Alroy 2002

	Phenacodus vortmani (Cope 1880)

	Phenacodus brachypternus Cope 1882
	recombined as Copecion brachypternus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla

	Hyracotherium craspedotum Cope 1880
	= Perissodactyla indet. Owen 1848	Alroy 2002
	- could be Systemodon tapirinus

	Heptodon calciculus (Cope 1880)
	(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae

	Hyracotherium vasacciense (Cope 1872)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Hyracotherium index (Cope 1873)
	recombined as Minippus index
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae

	Bunophorus macropternus (Cope 1882)

	Bunophorus etsagicus (Cope 1882)

	Wasatchia lysitensis Sinclair 1914
	(1 measurement)
	= Bunophorus grangeri Sinclair 1914	Alroy 2002

	Diacodexis metsiacus (Cope 1882)
	(6 measurements)
	= Diacodexis kelleyi Krishtalka and Stucky 1985	Krishtalka and Stucky 1985
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae

	Thryptacodon loisi Kelley and Wood 1954
	= Thryptacodon antiquus Matthew and Granger 1915	Alroy 2002

	Anacodon ursidens Cope 1882
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae

	Oxyaena forcipata Cope 1874
	(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Creodonta

	Prolimnocyon elisabethae Gazin 1952
	= Prolimnocyon antiquus Matthew and Granger 1915	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae

	Prototomus vulpecula (Matthew and Granger 1915)
	recombined as Gazinocyon vulpeculus

	Tritemnodon strenua
Mammalia - Viverravidae

	Didymictis protenus (Cope 1874)
	confirmed by Polly 1997 (1 measurement)

	Viverravus gracilis Marsh 1872

	Viverravus lutosus Gazin 1952
Mammalia

	Miacis jepseni Guthrie 1967
	recombined as Oodectes jepseni
	ref 6294: includes "Prolimnocyon iudei"

	Miacis exiguus Matthew and Granger 1915
	= Miacis petilus Gingerich 1983	Gingerich 1983

	Miacis latidens Matthew and Granger 1915

	Vulpavus sp. Marsh 1871

	Vulpavus cf. canavus (Cope 1881)

	Uintacyon sp. Leidy 1873

	Uintacyon massetericus (Cope 1882)
Mammalia - Epoicotheriidae

	Palaeanodon woodi Guthrie 1967
	recombined as Tubulodon woodi
Mammalia - Acreodi - Hapalodectidae

	Hapalodectes leptognathus (Osborn and Wortman 1892)
Mammalia

	Talpavus sp. Marsh 1872
	= Talpavus sullivani n. sp. Guthrie 1971	Guthrie 1971
	- upper molars may be Scenopagus: Krishtalka and Setoguchi 1977
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae

	Paramys excavatus Loomis 1907
	includes "Franimys lysitensis"

	Paramys copei Loomis 1907
	(6 measurements)

	Pseudotomus coloradensis Wood 1962
	recombined as Mytonomys coloradensis
	ref6294: includes "Leptotomus loomisi"

	Reithroparamys atwateri (Loomis 1907)
	recombined as Acritoparamys atwateri

	Lophiparamys debequensis Wood 1962

	Thisbemys sp. Wood 1959	Korth 1984
Mammalia - Rodentia - Paramyidae

	Franimys ambos Korth 1984	Korth 1984
	surely includes "F. buccatus" of Black and Sutton 1984
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae

	Knightomys depressus (Loomis 1907)
	includes "Microparamys lysitensis"; apparently includes "Franimys lysitensis" of Black and Sutton 1984

	Dawsonomys minor Wood 1965
	recombined as Knightomys minor
	(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae

	Cynodontomys latidens Cope 1882
	recombined as Microsyops latidens
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae

	Phenacolemur citatus Matthew 1915
	recombined as Simpsonlemur citatus
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

	Pelycodus jarrovii (Cope 1874)
	= Cantius sp. Simons 1962	Alroy 2002
	also listed

	Copelemur feretutus n. sp. Gingerich and Simons 1977
	synonym of Cantius frugivorus
	ref 1675: includes "Pelycodus frugivorus" (5 measurements)
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae

	Anemorhysis musculus (Matthew 1915)
	= Omomyidae indet. Gazin 1958	Alroy 2002

	Omomys minutus (Loomis 1906)
	recombined as Loveina minuta

	Absarokius abbotti (Loomis 1906)
Mammalia - Leptictidae

	Palaeictops cf. pineyensis (Gazin 1952)
	= Palaeictops cf. bicuspis Cope 1880	Alroy 2002

	Didelphodus sp. Cope 1882
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae

	Coryphodon molestus (Cope 1874)
	= Coryphodon armatus Cope 1872	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Apatemyidae

	Apatemys whitakeri (Simpson 1954)
	(1 measurement)
	= Apatemys bellulus Marsh 1872	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Esthonychidae

	Esthonyx bisulcatus Cope 1874
	OK according to Gingerich and Gunnell 1979 (1 measurement)
Mammalia

	Ectoganus cf. simplex (Cope 1874)
	= Ectoganus gliriformis Cope 1874	Schoch 1981
	DUPLICATE REF 3044 or 3045
Mammalia - Dinocerata - Prodinoceratidae

	Probathyopsis lysitensis Kelley and Wood 1954
	(2 measurements)
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Wyoming	County:	Fremont
Coordinates:	43.2° North, 108.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	48.0° North, 91.4° 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:	54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:

Wind River

Lithology and environment

Environment:

terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Collection size:

1324 specimens

Taxonomic list comments:from a 10 sq. mi. area about 4 mi. N and NE of Lysite; Cottonwood Creek, Davis Draw, and Bridger Creek drainages (all are tributaries of Badwater Creek)
includes Basal, Middle, and Upper Cliff localities (= locs. 1-5, 6a, 6b, 6c, 7 - 9); CM 114 equals Guthrie's locality 6
interval is >= 40 m (Guthrie), <=80 to 100 m (Korth 1982)
this does NOT include the "Guthrie" series of localities from the Lost Cabin Mbr.
Korth 1982 suggests that Lambdotherium is not from this interval, but Guthrie did not include it in his list in any case
specimen of Bunophorus sinclairi is actually from CM loc. 34: Stucky and Krishtalka 1990

Metadata

Also known as:	CM 114; "Type Area of the Lysite Member"
Database number:	15964
Authorizer:	J. Alroy	Enterer:	J. Alroy
Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-02-18 00:00:00	Last modified:	2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

1760.

D. A. Guthrie. 1967. The mammalian fauna of the Lysite Member, Wind River Formation (early Eocene) of Wyoming. Memoirs of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 5:1-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
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]
1675		P. D. Gingerich and E. L. Simons. 1977. Systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of early Eocene Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) in North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 24(22):245-279 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1761		D. A. Guthrie. 1971. The Mammalian Fauna of the Lost Cabin Member, Wind River Formation (lower Eocene) of Wyoming. Annals of Carnegie Museum 43(4):47-113 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
2105		W. W. Korth. 1984. Earliest Tertiary evolution and radiation of rodents in North America. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 24:1-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
2183		L. Krishtalka and R. K. Stucky. 1985. Revision of the Eocene Wind River Faunas, Early Eocene of Central Wyoming. Part 7. Revision of Diacodexis (Mammalian, Artiodactyla). Annals of Carnegie Museum 54(14):413-486 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
6223		A. D. Redline. 1997. Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 13. Systematics and phylogenetic pattern of early Eocene Hyopsodus (Mammalia: Condylarthra). Annals of Carnegie Museum 66(1):1-81 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3044		R. M. Schoch. 1981. Revision of the Middle Paleocene (Torrejonian) Taeniodont (Mammalia) Psittacotherium Cope, 1882. In S. G. Lucas, J. K. Rigby Jr., B. S. Kues (eds.), Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology 177-185 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]