SC-178: Tiffanian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Phenacodus grangeri
Simpson 1935
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Secord 2008 | |||||||||
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Phenacodus vortmani
(Cope 1880)
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Secord 2008 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Carpolestidae
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Carpolestes nigridens
Simpson 1928
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Secord 2008 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Plesiadapidae
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Plesiadapis sp.
Gervais 1877
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= Plesiadapis gingerichi
Rose 1981
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| replaces ID of Butler et al. 1981, said to be new | ||||||||||
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= Plesiadapis cf. dubius
Matthew 1915
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Secord 2008 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Paromomyidae
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Phenacolemur pagei
Jepsen 1930
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Secord 2008 | |||||||||
| recombined as Dillerlemur pagei | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Leptictidae
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Prodiacodon cf. tauricinerei
(Jepsen 1930)
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Secord 2008 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
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Ectoganus lobdelli
(Simpson 1929)
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Secord 2008 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Park |
| Coordinates: | 44.3° North, 109.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 50.2° North, 88.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Tiffanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 60.90000 - 56.20000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | Clark | Local bed: | 780 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: in C25r just below SC-191, which is at the base of C25n: Butler et al. not discussed by Secord et al. 2006, but they too place SC-191 at the base of C25n, so a level of 780 m estimated from their section is employed | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UMMP |
| Taxonomic list comments:closest locality with reported fauna to YPM "Tif6?" locality of O'Leary and Rose 1995 yielding Dissacus praenuntius that is 1 mi due E and much higher topographically | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 15058 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-07-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-11-16 18:26:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-07-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2953. | K. D. Rose. 1981. The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 26:1-197 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 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] |