Upper Wiggins Formation (UW V-77026): Uintan, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Thisbemys cf. corrugatus
Wood 1959
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Paramys cf. copei
Loomis 1907
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Colodon cf. woodi
(Gazin 1956)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Epihippus uintensis
(Marsh 1875)
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= Epihippus gracilis
Marsh 1871
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Miacidae
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Uintacyon sp.
Leidy 1873
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= Miocyon sp.
Matthew 1909
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Bryant 1992 | |||||||||
= Miocyon sp.
Matthew 1909
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Friscia and Rasmussen 2010 | |||||||||
an unnamed, large species | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus uintensis
Osborn 1902
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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 |
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] |