SC-26: Wasatchian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proteutheria
- Palaeoryctidae
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Eoryctes melanus
Thewissen and Gingerich 1989
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Mammalia
- Apatemyidae
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Labidolemur kayi
Simpson 1929
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Silcox et al. 2010 | |||||||||
USMN 530221 (a nearly complete, articulated skeleton with a skull and dentaries) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Macroscelidea
- Apheliscidae
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Apheliscus chydaeus
Gingerich 1994
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Gingerich 1994 | |||||||||
(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Creodonta
- Hyaenodontidae
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Arfia zele
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
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Gingerich and Deutsch 1989 | |||||||||
Prototomus phobos
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
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Gingerich and Deutsch 1989 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Viverravidae
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Viverravus acutus
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Polly 1997 | |||||||||
Viverravus politus
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Polly 1997 | |||||||||
Didymictis leptomylus
Cope 1880
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Polly 1997 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hyracotherium grangeri
Gingerich 1989
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Gingerich 1991 | |||||||||
recombined as Sifrhippus grangeri | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Micromomyidae
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Tinimomys graybulliensis
Szalay 1974
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Rose et al. 1993 | |||||||||
from a nodule "approximately" at SC-26; presumably source of specimen described by MacPhee et al. 1995 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Microsyopidae
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Arctodontomys wilsoni
(Szalay 1969)
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Gunnell 1985 | |||||||||
(6 measurements) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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Pelycodus ralstoni
Matthew 1915
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Butler et al. 1981 | |||||||||
= Cantius ralstoni
Matthew 1915
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Park |
Coordinates: | 44.3° North, 109.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 49.2° North, 91.9° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
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: | 55.80000 - 50.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | UMMP |
Taxonomic list comments:level based on Butler et al. 1981 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Houde site 14 | ||
Database number: | 15738 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2012-12-17 05:33:17 |
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:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
1163 | R. F. Butler, P. D. Gingerich, and E. H. Lindsay. 1981. Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of Paleocene and Lower Eocene Continental Deposits, Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming. Journal of Geology 89 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
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] | |
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] | |
2962 | K. D. Rose, K. C. Beard, and P. Houde. 1993. Annals of Carnegie Museum 62(4) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
43993 | M. T. Silcox, J. I. Bloch, D. M. Boyer and P. Houde. 2010. Cranial anatomy of Paleocene and Eocene Labidolemur kayi (Mammalia: Apatotheria), and the relationships of the Apatemyidae to other mammals. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160:773-825 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |