UMMP SC-239: Tiffanian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Thryptacodon pseudarctos
Simpson 1928
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Plesiadapidae
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Plesiadapis churchilli
Gingerich 1975
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Park |
Coordinates: | 44.9° North, 108.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 50.7° North, 88.3° 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-4b |
Age range of interval: | 61.70000 - 56.80000 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: | 190424 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2017-12-07 20:34:17 | Last modified: | 2017-12-07 20:34:17 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-12-07 20:34:17 |
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] |