SC-2: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proteutheria - Palaeoryctidae
Eoryctes melanus Thewissen and Gingerich 1989
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus loomisi McKenna 1960
Gingerich 1989
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Apheliscus chydaeus Gingerich 1994
Gingerich 1994
Mammalia - Acreodi
Wyolestes apheles Gingerich 1981
Gingerich 1981
DUPLICATE REF 1643 or 1644
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hyracotherium grangeri Gingerich 1989
Gingerich 1991
recombined as Sifrhippus grangeri
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Cardiolophus radinskyi n. sp. Gingerich 1991
Gingerich 1991
(6 measurements)
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Viverravus rosei Polly 1997
Polly 1997
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915
Polly 1997
Viverravus politus Matthew and Granger 1915
Polly 1997
Mammalia
Miacis deutschi Gingerich 1983
Gingerich 1983
Mammalia - Metacheiromyidae
Palaeanodon nievelti Gingerich 1989
Gingerich 1989
Mammalia - Creodonta
Prolimnocyon haematus Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Prototomus phobos Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Prototomus martis Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Galecyon mordax (Matthew and Granger 1915)
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Arfia shoshoniensis (Matthew and Granger 1915)
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
probable type locality
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Cantius mckennai (Gingerich and Simons 1977)
Maas and O'Leary 1996
Mammalia - Primates - Micromomyidae
Micromomys willwoodensis n. sp. Rose and Bown 1982
Rose and Bown 1982
recombined as Dryomomys willwoodensis
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Arctodontomys wilsoni (Szalay 1969)
Gunnell 1985
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Park
Coordinates: 44.8° North, 109.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.7° North, 91.9° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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
Local section:Clark Local bed:1720 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UMMP
Taxonomic list comments:meter level estimated from figure of Bowen and Bloch 2002
Wa-2
Metadata
Also known as:Princeton University Camp #1 (1928)
Database number:15727
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-04-04 13:47:51
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3403. J. G. M. Thewissen and P. D. Gingerich. 1989. Skull and Endocranial Cast of Eoructes melanus, a New Palaeoryctid (Mammalia: Insectivora) from the Early Eocene of Western North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(4):459-470 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

1643 P. D. Gingerich. 1981. Radiation of Early Cenozoic Didymoconidae (Condylarthra, Mesonychia) in Asia, with a New Genus from the Early Eocene of Western North America. Journal of Mammalogy 62(3):526-538 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
1650 P. D. Gingerich. 1983. Paleocene-Eocene faunal zones and a preliminary analysis of Laramide structural deformation in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 34:185-195 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1657 P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1660 P. D. Gingerich. 1991. Systematics and Evolution of Early Eocene Perissodactyla (Mammalia) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(8):181-213 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
1662 P. D. Gingerich. 1994. New species of Apheliscus, Haplomylus, and Hyopsodus (Mammalia, Condylarthra) from the late Paleocene of southern Montana and early Eocene of northwestern Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 29(6):119-134 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/K. Beard]
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]
1728 G. F. Gunnell. 1985. Systematics of Early Eocene Microsyopinae (Mammalia, Primates) in the Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(2):51-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2336 M. C. Maas and M. O'Leary. 1996. Evolution of molar enamel microstructure in North American Notharctidae (primates). Journal of Human Evolution 31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
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]
2963 K. D. Rose and T. M. Bown. 1982. New Plesiadapiform Primates from the Eocene of Wyoming and Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2(1):63-69 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]