Dad: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys copei Loomis 1907
includes "P. major"
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
McKenna 1960
"clearly an anaptomorphine" belonging to this species
Bown 1979
from UCMP V-5721, see Szalay 1976 DUPLICATE REF 1112 or 1113
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Honey 1988
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Alroy 2002
- could be Systemodon tapirinus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
described by Radinsky 1963
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae
"near D. secans"
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Oxyaena sp. Cope 1874
    = Oxyaena lupina Cope 1874
Gunnell 1998
Mammalia
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
    = Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870
Alroy 2002
could be H. minor, see Redline 1997
    = Hyopsodus powellianus Cope 1884
Alroy 2002
may also include "H. cf. walcottianus"
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae
    = Coryphodon armatus Cope 1872
Lucas 1998
"C. cf. radians"
Mammalia - Esthonychidae
Esthonyx sp. Cope 1874
Mammalia - Leptictidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Carbon
Coordinates: 41.8° North, 107.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.4° North, 80.0° 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:Niland Tongue
Local section:Washa Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:UCMP
Taxonomic list comments:placed in the Niland Tongue by Krishtalka et al. 1987
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V-5721
Database number:15479
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer: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:
1618. C. L. Gazin. 1965. Early Eocene mammalian faunas and their environment in the vicinity of the Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 19:171-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1112 T. M. Bown. 1979. New Omomyid Primates (Haplorhini, Tarsiiformes) from Middle Eocene Rocks of West-Central Hot Springs County, Wyoming. Folia Primatologica 31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
1735 G. F. Gunnell. 1998. Creodonta. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Orcutt]
1931 J. G. Honey. 1988. A Mammalian Fauna from the Base of the Eocene Cathedral Bluffs Tongue of the Wasatch Formation, Cottonwood Creek Area, Southeast Washakie Basin, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1669-C(1):C1-C14 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
6280 S. G. Lucas. 1998. Fossil mammals and the Paleocene/Eocene series boundary in Europe, North America, and Asia. In M.-P. Aubry, S. G. Lucas and W. A. Berggren (eds.), Late Paleocene–Early Eocene Biotic and Climatic Events in the Marine and Terrestrial Records 451-500 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2528 M. C. McKenna. 1960. Fossil Mammalia from the early Wasatchian Four Mile fauna, Eocene of northwest Colorado. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 37(1):1-130 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]