MP-75: 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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Cantius abditus
(Gingerich and Simons 1977)
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
- Oxyaenidae
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Ambloctonus cf. priscus
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Gunnell and Gingerich 1991 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
- Hyaenodontidae
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Prototomus secundarius
Cope 1875
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
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Prolimnocyon sp.
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Palaeotheriidae
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Hyracotherium sp.
Owen 1841
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
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Heptodon sp.
Cope 1882
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Diacodexeidae
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Bunophorus sp.
Sinclair 1914
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Anacodon sp.
Cope 1882
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus minor
Loomis 1905
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
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Hyopsodus miticulus
(Cope 1874)
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Coryphodontidae
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Coryphodon eocaenus
Owen 1846
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Clyde 1997 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Park |
| Coordinates: | 44.5° North, 108.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.3° North, 91.7° 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-6 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 15689 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, W. Clyde | Enterer: | J. Alroy, L. Gannon, W. Clyde |
| Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2023-10-20 12:59:14 |
| 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] |