Upper Wiggins Formation (UW V-77026): Uintan, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Thisbemys cf. corrugatus Wood 1959
Paramys cf. copei Loomis 1907
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Colodon cf. woodi (Gazin 1956)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Epihippus uintensis (Marsh 1875)
    = Epihippus gracilis Marsh 1871
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Miacidae
Uintacyon sp. Leidy 1873
    = Miocyon sp. Matthew 1909
Bryant 1992
    = Miocyon sp. Matthew 1909
Friscia and Rasmussen 2010
an unnamed, large species
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus uintensis Osborn 1902
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:7
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:25 specimens
Museum repositories:UW
Metadata
Database number:16642
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2011-05-12 19:51:44
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]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1141 H. N. Bryant. 1992. The Carnivora of the Lac Pelletier Lower Fauna (Eocene Duchesnean), Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan. Journal of Paleontology 66(5):847-855 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
36145 A. R. Friscia and D. T. Rasmussen. 2010. Middle Eocene Carnivoramorpha of the Uinta Basin, Utah. Annals of Carnegie Museum 79(1):51-63 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]