Rainbow Valley: Clarkforkian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Leidyosuchus formidabilis
Erickson 1976
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Bartels 1983 | |||||||||
recombined as Borealosuchus formidabilis | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Baenidae indet.
Cope 1882
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Bartels 1983 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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Emydidae informal indet. A
Rafinesque 1815
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Bartels 1983 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Cardichelyon rogerwoodi
Hutchison 2013
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Hutchison 2013 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Protochelydra cf. zangerli
Erickson 1973
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Bartels 1983 | |||||||||
= Panchelydridae indet.
Joyce et al. 2004
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Joyce 2016 | |||||||||
Mammalia
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Esthonyx ancylion
Gingerich and Gunnell 1979
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recombined as Azygonyx ancylion | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cyriacotheriidae
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Cyriacotherium psamminum
Rose and Krause 1982
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Mammalia
- Coryphodontidae
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Coryphodon sp.
(Owen 1845)
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original and current combination Lophiodon (Coryphodon) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Macroscelidea
- Apheliscidae
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Haplomylus simpsoni
Rose 1981
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
- Oxyaenidae
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Oxyaena aequidens
Matthew and Granger 1915
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= Dipsalidictis aequidens
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Viverravidae
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Didymictis protenus
(Cope 1874)
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= Didymictis proteus
Polly 1997
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Polly 1997 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Phenacodus primaevus
(Cope 1873)
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= Phenacodus intermedius
Granger 1915
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Thewissen 1990 | |||||||||
Ectocion osbornianus
(Cope 1882)
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described by Thewissen 1990 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Thryptacodon cf. antiquus
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Princetonia yalensis
Gingerich 1989
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Gingerich 1989 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Dermoptera
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Plagiomene accola
Rose 1981
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Mammalia
- Dinocerata
- Prodinoceratidae
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Probathyopsis praecursor
Simpson 1929
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Park |
Coordinates: | 44.3° North, 109.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 49.7° North, 90.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
Stage: | Thanetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Clarkforkian | ||
Age range of interval: | 56.80000 - 55.80000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Local section: | Clark | Local bed: | 1380 m |
Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories: | UMMP |
Metadata
Also known as: | SC-234 | ||
Database number: | 15091 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, W. Clyde, P. Mannion, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | J. Alroy, W. Clyde, P. Mannion, P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:40 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 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] | |
724 | W. S. Bartels. 1983. A transitional Paleocene-Eocene reptile fauna from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Herpetologica 39(4):359-374 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen] | |
1657 | P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
55096 | J. H. Hutchison. 2013. New turtles from the Paleogene of North America. In D. B. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, J. D. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 477-497 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
62897 | W. G. Joyce. 2016. A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Chelydridae. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 57(1):21-56 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion] | |
2787 | P. D. Polly. 1997. Ancestry and Species Definition in Paleontology: A Stratocladistic Analysis of Paleocene-Eocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(1):1-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
3401 | J. G. M. Thewissen. 1990. Evolution of Paleocene and Eocene Phenacodontidae (Mammalia, Condylarthra). University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 29:1-107 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] |