SC-213: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Arctodontomys wilsoni (Szalay 1969)
Gunnell 1985
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Tetonius matthewi Bown and Rose 1987
Bown and Rose 1987
Teilhardina crassidens Bown and Rose 1987
Bown and Rose 1987
T. crassidens-americana intergrade also listed
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Cardiolophus radinskyi Gingerich 1991
Gingerich 1991
Homogalax protapirinus (Wortman 1896)
Gingerich 1991
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hyracotherium grangeri Gingerich 1989
Gingerich 1991
recombined as Sifrhippus grangeri
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Gunnell and Gingerich 1991
Mammalia - Creodonta
Prolimnocyon atavus Matthew and Granger 1915
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Prolimnocyon haematus Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Prototomus martis Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Prototomus phobos Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Gingerich and Deutsch 1989
Prototomus deimos n. sp. 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
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Didymictis protenus (Cope 1874)
Polly 1997
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915
Polly 1997
Mammalia
Miacis deutschi Gingerich 1983
Gingerich 1983
Mammalia - Metacheiromyidae
Palaeanodon nievelti Gingerich 1989
Gingerich 1989
Mammalia - Acreodi
Wyolestes apheles Gingerich 1981
Gingerich 1981
DUPLICATE REF 1643 or 1644
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Apheliscus chydaeus Gingerich 1994
Gingerich 1994
Mammalia - Proteutheria - Palaeoryctidae
Eoryctes melanus Thewissen and Gingerich 1989
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:1760 m
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Museum repositories:UMMP
Taxonomic list comments:meter level given by Gunnell and Gingerich 1991
Metadata
Database number:15796
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:40
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:

1123 T. M. Bown and K. D. Rose. 1987. Patterns of Dental Evolution in Early Eocene Anaptomorphine Primates (Omomyidae) from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Paleontological Society Memoir 23:1-162 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
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]
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]