Blue Rim: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Paramyidae
    = Paramyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys excavatus Loomis 1907
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Gunnell 1989
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
includes "M. robustum"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Froehlich 2002
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae
Stucky and Krishtalka 1990
includes some specimens of "Phenacodus vortmani"
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
    = Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870
Alroy 2002
Mammalia
Stylinodontinae indet. Schlosser 1911
Schoch and Lucas 1981
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Sublette
Coordinates: 42.7° North, 110.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.9° North, 83.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval: Wasatchian
Age range of interval: 54.9 - 50.5 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wasatch Member:Alkali Creek Tongue
Local section:GRBsn Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: originally "Western Facies" of the "New Fork Tongue Member"
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:43 specimens
Metadata
Also known as:NF-1
Database number:15456
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
3596. R. M. West. 1973. Geology and mammalian paleontology of the New Fork-Big Sandy area, Sublette County, Wyoming. Fieldiana: Geology 29 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
53105 D. J. Froehlich. 2002. Quo vadis Eohippus? The systematics and taxonomy of the early Eocene equids (Perissodactyla). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134:141-256 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
1730 G. F. Gunnell. 1989. Evolutionary History of Microsyopoidea (Mammalia, ?Primates) and the Relationship Between Plesiadapiformes and Primates. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 27:1-157 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
3057 R. M. Schoch and S. G. Lucas. 1981. New Conoryctines (Mammalia: Taeniodonta) from the Middle Paleocene (Torrejonian) of Western North America. Journal of Mammalogy 62(4) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3335 R. K. Stucky and L. Krishtalka. 1990. Revision of the Wind River Faunas, Early Eocene of Central Wyoming. Part 10. Bunophorus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla). Annals of Carnegie Museum 59(2):149-171 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]