Tipton Butte: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
    = Microsyops sp. Leidy 1872
Alroy 2002
"may be C. angustidens"
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Beard 1988
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
    = Meniscotherium chamense Cope 1874
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alroy 2002
two forms
Mammalia
"possibly V. asius" - based on Guthrie 1971, this could be V. australis or V. canavus
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870
Mammalia - Esthonychidae
    = Esthonyx sp. Cope 1874
Alroy 2002
could be E. spatularius
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Sweetwater
Coordinates: 41.7° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.7° North, 82.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval: Wasatchian
Age range of interval: 54.9 - 50.5 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wasatch Member:Red Desert
Local section:Washa Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:SW 1/4 sec 23 T 20 N R 96 W
clearly in the Main Body based on map of Roehler 1969
about 25 - 30 ENE of Bitter Creek
Metadata
Database number:15846
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
1618. C. L. Gazin. 1965. Early Eocene mammalian faunas and their environment in the vicinity of the Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 19:171-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1036 K. C. Beard. 1988. New notharctine primate fossils from the early Eocene of New Mexico and southern Wyoming and the phylogeny of Notharctinae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 75(4):439-469 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]