Elk Creek (380 m): Wasatchian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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Anemorhysis pattersoni
Bown and Rose 1984
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Bown and Rose 1987 | |||||||||
USGS D-1652 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Phenacodus primaevus
(Cope 1873)
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= Phenacodus sp.
Cope 1873
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus sp.
Leidy 1870
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"latidens/miticulus" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Esthonychidae
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Esthonyx bisulcatus
Cope 1874
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Big Horn |
Coordinates: | 44.5° North, 108.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 49.2° North, 90.8° West | ||||
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: | 54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:USGS D-1453, 1652 are from Washakie County |
Metadata
Also known as: | YPM 152, USGS D-1259 (380 m), 1453 (378 m), 1652 (382 m) | ||
Database number: | 15533 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:40 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
3021. | D. M. Schankler. 1980. Faunal Zonation of the Willwood Formation in the Central Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 24:99-114 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
1123 | T. M. Bown and K. D. Rose. 1987. Patterns of Dental Evolution in Early Eocene Anaptomorphine Primates (Omomyidae) from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Paleontological Society Memoir 23:1-162 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |