Lower Wiggins Formation: Uintan, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Telmatherium cf. altidens Osborn 1908
recombined as Pollyosbornia altidens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Hot Springs
Coordinates: 43.7° North, 108.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.4° North, 97.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Uintan
Age range of interval:46.20000 - 40.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wiggins
Local section:OwlCr Local bed:6
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:UW
Metadata
Also known as:UW V-79026
Database number:16596
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2011-05-12 19:52:21
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1405. J. G. Eaton. 1985. Paleontology and Correlation of the Eocene Tepee Trail and Wiggins Formations in the North Fork of Owl Creek Area, Southeastern Absaroka Range, Hot Springs County, Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(4) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]