PBDB Collection

MP-17: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia

	Allognathosuchus sp. Mook 1921	Clyde 1997
Reptilia - Testudines

	Testudines indet. Batsch 1788	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae

	Haplomylus scottianus Gingerich 1994	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae

	Hyopsodus latidens Denison 1937	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae

	Phenacodus trilobatus Cope 1881	Clyde 1997

	Ectocion osbornianus (Cope 1882)	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Perissodactyla

	Homogalax protapirinus (Wortman 1896)	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae

	Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae

	Oxyaena intermedia Denison 1938	Gunnell and Gingerich 1991

	Palaeonictis occidentalis Osborn 1892	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae

	Prototomus robustus (Matthew and Granger 1915)
Mammalia - Viverravidae

	Viverravus bowni Gingerich 1987	Clyde 1997
	synonym of Viverravus laytoni

	Viverravus rosei Polly 1997	Polly 1997

	Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915	Polly 1997
Mammalia - Pantolestidae

	Palaeosinopa sp. Matthew 1901	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae

	Paramys sp. Leidy 1871	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Dermoptera

	Plagiomene multicuspis Matthew 1918	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

	Cantius mckennai (Gingerich and Simons 1977)	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae

	Tetonius sp. Matthew 1915	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Coryphodontidae

	Coryphodon eocaenus Owen 1846	Clyde 1997
Mammalia - Esthonychidae

	Esthonyx spatularius Cope 1880	Clyde 1997
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Wyoming	County:	Park
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:	54.90000 - 50.50000 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:may be in Big Horn County, Wa-4

Metadata

Database number:	15682
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, W. Clyde	Enterer:	J. Alroy, W. Clyde, L. Gannon
Modifier:	G. Varnham	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-09-27 00:00:00	Last modified:	2022-02-15 07:41:04
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]
2787		P. D. Polly. 1997. Ancestry and Species Definition in Paleontology: A Stratocladistic Analysis of Paleocene-Eocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(1):1-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]