Twnf-H: Wasatchian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Primates
- Microsyopidae
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Gunnell 1989 | |||||||
Mammalia
- Diacodexeidae
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Krishtalka and Stucky 1985 | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Sublette |
Coordinates: | 42.7° North, 110.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 50.9° North, 83.0° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
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: | 54.9 - 50.5 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Wasatch | Member: | Alkali Creek Tongue | ||
Local section: | GRBsn | Local bed: | 2 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: originally "Western Facies" of the "New Fork Tongue Member" |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection size: | 2 specimens |
Metadata
Also known as: | NF-6 | ||
Database number: | 15851 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | 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:
3596. | R. M. West. 1973. Geology and mammalian paleontology of the New Fork-Big Sandy area, Sublette County, Wyoming. Fieldiana: Geology 29 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
1730 | G. F. Gunnell. 1989. Evolutionary History of Microsyopoidea (Mammalia, ?Primates) and the Relationship Between Plesiadapiformes and Primates. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 27:1-157 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] | |
2183 | L. Krishtalka and R. K. Stucky. 1985. Revision of the Eocene Wind River Faunas, Early Eocene of Central Wyoming. Part 7. Revision of Diacodexis (Mammalian, Artiodactyla). Annals of Carnegie Museum 54(14):413-486 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |