UM-Sub-Wy Locality 7: Clarkforkian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
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Multituberculata indet.
Cope 1884
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Dorr 1978 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Coryphodontidae
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Coryphodon cf. testis
(Cope 1882)
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| "near C. testis" | ||||||||||
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= Coryphodon sp.
Owen 1845
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Dorr 1978 | |||||||||
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= Coryphodon proterus
Simons 1960
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Uhen and Gingerich 1995 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Macroscelidea
- Apheliscidae
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Haplomylus speirianus
(Cope 1880)
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Dorr 1978 | |||||||||
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= Haplomylus cf. simpsoni
Rose 1981
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Rose 1981 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Phenacodontidae indet.
Cope 1881
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Dorr 1978 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Dinocerata
- Prodinoceratidae
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Prouintatherium hobackensis n. gen., n. sp.
Dorr 1958
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= Probathyopsis praecursor
Simpson 1929
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Thewissen and Gingerich 1987 | |||||||||
| some specimens are Coryphodon | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Sublette |
| Coordinates: | 43.3° North, 110.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.9° North, 92.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1-2 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Key time interval: | Clarkforkian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 56.20000 - 54.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wasatch | Member: | Chappo | ||
| Local section: | HbckC | Local bed: | 2 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "early Wasatchian-Graybull equivalent (probably early Graybull)... Hoback formation" (Dorr 1958) but Clarkforkian and Chappo Member according to later authors | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,ferruginous,brown silty "shale" |
| Lithology description: "dark brown, silty shale. Ironstone concretions were especially abundant near and against the bones" (Dorr 1958) | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UMMP |
| Collection method comments: collected by "hand removal" (quarrying) (Dorr 1958) | |
| Taxonomic list comments:"Waterworn fragments of large turtles are common... A few internal molds of gastropods were found in the quarry matrix" (Dorr 1958) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 15076 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2008-11-30 21:23:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 28631. | J. A. Dorr, Jr. 1958. Prouintatherium, new uintathere genus, earliest Eocene, Hoback Formation, Wyoming, and the phylogeny of Dinocerata. Journal of Paleontology 32(3):506-516 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 1375 | J. A. Dorr, Jr. 1978. Revised and Amended Fossil Vertebrate Faunal Lists, Early Tertiary, Hoback Basin, Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 16(2):79-84 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 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] | |
| 3402 | J. G. M. Thewissen and P. D. Gingerich. 1987. Systematics and evolution of Probathyopsis (Mammalia, Dinocerata) from the late Paleocene and early Eocene of western North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(8):195-219 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 3476 | M. D. Uhen and P. D. Gingerich. 1995. Evolution of Coryphodon (Mammalia, Pantodonta) in the late Paleocene and early Eocene of Northwestern Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 29(10):259-289 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |