UMMP FG-4 Sunday Locality: Tiffanian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Plesiadapidae
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Plesiadapis simonsi
Gingerich 1975
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Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Thryptacodon pseudarctos
Simpson 1928
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Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Ectocion mediotuber
Thewissen 1990
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Phenacodus vortmani
(Cope 1880)
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Phenacodus grangeri
Simpson 1935
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Park |
| Coordinates: | 44.7° North, 108.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 50.5° North, 88.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 | ||
| Key time interval: | Tiffanian | Mammal zone: | Ti-5 |
| Age range of interval: | 60.90000 - 56.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fort Union |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UMMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 190403 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-12-07 19:26:53 | Last modified: | 2017-12-07 19:26:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-12-07 19:26:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63104. | R. Secord. 2008. The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 35:1-192 [K. Beard/K. Beard] |