Smiley Draw local fauna: Early Eocene, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cylindrodontidae
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| Exceptionally common at this locality, NISP = 400; MNI = 63 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Sweetwater |
| Coordinates: | 41.7° North, 108.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.4° North, 82.2° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | unpublished field data |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Early Eocene | Mammal zone: | Wa4 |
| Age range of interval: | 56 - 48.07 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wasatch |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),anthill,mechanical,sieve,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | CM |
Metadata
| Also known as: | CM locality 4026 | ||
| Database number: | 139531 | ||
| Authorizer: | K. Beard | Enterer: | K. Beard |
| Created: | 2013-02-13 04:33:18 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-02-13 04:33:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 44714. | R. L. Anemone, M. R. Dawson, and K. C. Beard. 2012. The early Eocene rodent Tuscahomys (Cylindrodontidae) from the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming: Phylogeny, biogeography, and paleoecology. Annals of Carnegie Museum 80(3):187-205 [K. Beard/K. Beard] |