FG-87: Wasatchian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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Cantius mckennai
(Gingerich and Simons 1977)
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
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Homogalax protapirinus
(Wortman 1896)
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Palaeotheriidae
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Hyracotherium sp.
Owen 1841
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Phenacodus trilobatus
Cope 1881
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Creodonta
- Oxyaenidae
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Oxyaena intermedia
Denison 1938
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Gunnell and Gingerich 1991 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Creodonta
- Hyaenodontidae
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Arfia opisthotoma
(Matthew 1901)
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Mammalia
- Macroscelidea
- Apheliscidae
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Haplomylus scottianus
Gingerich 1994
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Esthonychidae
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Esthonyx bisulcatus
Cope 1874
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
Reptilia
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Allognathosuchus sp.
Mook 1921
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Big Horn |
Coordinates: | 44.5° North, 108.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 49.3° North, 91.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
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: | 55.80000 - 50.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Willwood |
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "siliciclastic" | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. | Tectonic setting: | intermontane basin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | UMMP |
Taxonomic list comments:Wa-3
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Metadata
Database number: | 15593 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, W. Clyde | Enterer: | J. Alroy, L. Gannon |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-02-15 07:24:47 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1666. | P. D. Gingerich and H. A. Deutsch. 1989. Systematics and Evolution of Early Eocene Hyaenodontidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(13):327-391 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
11717 | W. C. Clyde. 1997. Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. PhD Thesis, University of Michigan [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/J. Alroy] | |
1745 | G. F. Gunnell and P. D. Gingerich. 1991. Systematics and Evolution of Late Paleocene and Early Eocene Oxyaenidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(7):141-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |