Rainbow Valley: Clarkforkian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Leidyosuchus formidabilis Erickson 1976
Bartels 1983
recombined as Borealosuchus formidabilis
Reptilia - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882
Bartels 1983
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Emydidae informal indet. A Rafinesque 1815
Bartels 1983
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Cardichelyon rogerwoodi Hutchison 2013
Hutchison 2013
Reptilia - Testudines
Protochelydra cf. zangerli Erickson 1973
Bartels 1983
    = Panchelydridae indet. Joyce et al. 2004
Joyce 2016
Mammalia
Esthonyx ancylion Gingerich and Gunnell 1979
recombined as Azygonyx ancylion
Mammalia - Cyriacotheriidae
Cyriacotherium psamminum Rose and Krause 1982
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. (Owen 1845)
original and current combination Lophiodon (Coryphodon)
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Haplomylus simpsoni Rose 1981
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Oxyaena aequidens Matthew and Granger 1915
    = Dipsalidictis aequidens Matthew and Granger 1915
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Didymictis protenus (Cope 1874)
    = Didymictis proteus Polly 1997
Polly 1997
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Phenacodus primaevus (Cope 1873)
    = Phenacodus intermedius Granger 1915
Thewissen 1990
Ectocion osbornianus (Cope 1882)
described by Thewissen 1990
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Thryptacodon cf. antiquus Matthew and Granger 1915
Princetonia yalensis Gingerich 1989
Gingerich 1989
Mammalia - Dermoptera
Plagiomene accola Rose 1981
Mammalia - Dinocerata - Prodinoceratidae
Probathyopsis praecursor Simpson 1929
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]