North Butte (UCMP V94082): Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Echmatemys sp. Hay 1906
Reptilia
Borealosuchus sp. Brochu 1997
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Washakie
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 108.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.7° North, 91.7° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Wasatchian
Age range of interval:54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Willwood
Local section:ElkCr Local bed:15 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: in or below the Wa-0 redbed
said to be "< 30 m" in the southern Bighorn Basin section; 15 m level is arbitrary
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red siltstone
Environment:"floodplain"
Geology comments: "bright red, deeply weathered paleosols"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Taxonomic list comments:mammals not reported, but all reptiles are listed
Metadata
Database number:59904
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-04-19 18:56:54 Last modified:2006-04-19 21:56:54
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-19 18:56:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17201. P. A. Holroyd, J. H. Hutchison, and S. G. Strait. 2001. Turtle diversity and abundance through the lower Eocene Willwood Formation of the southern Bighorn Basin. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 33:97-108 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]