Fossil Butte (Upper): Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Ectoganus sp. Cope 1874
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus cf. miticulus (Cope 1874)
    = Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870
Alroy 2002
Hyopsodus browni Loomis 1905
    = Hyopsodus powellianus Cope 1884
Alroy 2002
Mammalia
cf. Vulpavus australis Matthew and Granger 1915
    = Vulpavus australis Matthew and Granger 1915
Gunnell et al. 2016
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Didymictis altidens Cope 1880
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Sinopa cf. multicuspis (Cope 1875)
    = Prototomus cf. secundarius Cope 1875
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Hexacodus uintensis Gazin 1952
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Meniscotherium sp. Cope 1874
    = Meniscotherium chamense Cope 1874
Williamson and Lucas 1992
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Heptodon sp. Cope 1882
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841
    = Equidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Copelemur australotutus n. sp. Beard 1988
Beard 1988
single "Pelycodus nr. jarrovii" specimen from "the north side (saddle) of Fossil Butte"; the only other specimen from the north side explicitly mentioned by Gazin is Meniscotherium sp., from the upper levels
Mammalia - Rodentia - Reithroparamyidae
Reithroparamys sp. Matthew 1920
apparently the specimen from "Lysite equivalent, saddle north of Fossil Butte" that is "questionably referred" to R. debequensis by Wood 1962
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Lincoln
Coordinates: 41.8° North, 110.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.9° North, 94.4° West
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:54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wasatch
Local section:Fossl Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:said to be in the "Knight Fm." and "close below the Green River shales" (i.e., Fossil Butte Mbr.)
apparently same as Fossil Butte NM west of Kemmerer; see Grande 1984
Metadata
Database number:15597
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd
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:
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]
1036 K. C. Beard. 1988. New notharctine primate fossils from the early Eocene of New Mexico and southern Wyoming and the phylogeny of Notharctinae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 75(4):439-469 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
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]
3647 T. E. Williamson and S. G. Lucas. 1992. Meniscotherium (Mammalia, "Condylarthra) from the Paleocene-Eocene of Western North America). New Mex Museum of Natural History Science Bulletin 1:1-75 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]