SC-26: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proteutheria - Palaeoryctidae
Eoryctes melanus Thewissen and Gingerich 1989
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Labidolemur kayi Simpson 1929
Silcox et al. 2010
USMN 530221 (a nearly complete, articulated skeleton with a skull and dentaries)
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Apheliscus chydaeus Gingerich 1994
Gingerich 1994
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Prototomus phobos Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915
Polly 1997
Viverravus politus Matthew and Granger 1915
Polly 1997
Didymictis leptomylus Cope 1880
Polly 1997
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hyracotherium grangeri Gingerich 1989
Gingerich 1991
recombined as Sifrhippus grangeri
Mammalia - Primates - Micromomyidae
Tinimomys graybulliensis Szalay 1974
Rose et al. 1993
from a nodule "approximately" at SC-26; presumably source of specimen described by MacPhee et al. 1995
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Arctodontomys wilsoni (Szalay 1969)
Gunnell 1985
(6 measurements)
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Pelycodus ralstoni Matthew 1915
Butler et al. 1981
    = Cantius ralstoni Matthew 1915
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
Formation:Willwood
Local section:Clark Local bed:1580 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lowermost Cardiolophus radinskyi interval zone
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]