Indian Point (Middle): Wasatchian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Primates
- Microsyopidae
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= Microsyops sp.
Leidy 1872
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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= cf. Cantius sp.
Simons 1962
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
"possibly P. jarrovii" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hyracotherium sp.
Owen 1841
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Sweetwater |
Coordinates: | 41.7° North, 109.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 49.7° North, 82.2° 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
Metadata
Database number: | 15657 | ||
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] |