Washakie B (Upper): Uintan, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
"Amynodon advenus?"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Pantolestidae
McCarroll 1995
Mammalia - Primates
McCarroll 1995
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Leptotomus sp. Matthew 1910
McCarroll 1995
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Sweetwater
Coordinates: 41.7° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.7° North, 88.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2-3
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval: Uintan
Age range of interval: 46.2 - 39.7 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Washakie Member:Adobe Town, upper unit
Local section:Washa Local bed:8
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:this unit spans beds 675 to 708 of Roehler and is above the interval of known magnetic polarity in the formation
thought by McCarroll 1995 to be equivalent to either Uinta B1 or B2
Metadata
Database number:16649
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-07-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1994-07-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
2495. S. M. McCarroll, J. J. Flynn, and W. D. Turnbull. 1996. Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the Bridgerian-Uintan Washakie Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 25-39 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

2493 S. M. McCarroll. 1995. An early Uintan fauna from the upper unit of the Adobe Town Member, Washakie Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(3):42A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]