Fossil Butte (Lower): Wasatchian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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Pelycodus jarrovii
(Cope 1874)
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= Cantius sp.
Simons 1962
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hyracotherium sp.
Owen 1841
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Mammalia
- Homacodontidae
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Mammalia
- Acreodi
- Mesonychidae
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Mammalia
- Coryphodontidae
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Mammalia
- Leptictidae
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= Insectivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| seems extremely dubious in light of Novacek 1977 | ||||||||||
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= Eoictops novaceki n. gen., n. sp.
Gunnell et al. 2016
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Gunnell et al. 2016 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Lincoln |
| Coordinates: | 41.8° North, 110.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 50.1° North, 84.1° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
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 | |||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:not clear if this is from the New Fork Tongue or lower |
Metadata
| Database number: | 15596 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd | 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:
| 1616. | C. L. Gazin. 1962. A Further Study Of The Lower Eocene Mammalian Faunas Of Southwestern Wyoming. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 144(1):1-98 [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] | |
| 62695 | G. F. Gunnell, J.-P. Zonneveld, and W. S. Bartels. 2016. Stratigraphy, mammalian paleontology, paleoecology, and age correlation of the Wasatch Formation, Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming . Journal of Paleontology 90(5):981-1011 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen] |