Cedar Mountain (UW V-81064): Puercan, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Hot Springs/Washakie |
| Coordinates: | 43.9° North, 108.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 54.5° North, 71.9° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Puercan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66 - 63.8 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fort Union | ||||
| Local section: | Cedar | Local bed: | 1 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation' | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UW |
Metadata
| Database number: | 14803 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 829. | J. E. Hartman. 1986. Paleontology and biostratigraphy of lower part of Polecat Bench Formation, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 24(1):11-63 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers] |