FMNH FM-1-58-WDT : Bridgerian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Sweetwater |
| Coordinates: | 41.3° North, 108.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.6° North, 85.1° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 | ||
| Key time interval: | Bridgerian | Mammal zone: | Br3 |
| Age range of interval: | 50.5 - 46.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Washakie | Member: | Adobe Town | ||
| Local section: | Twka | Local bed: | Twka1 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: lower Adobe Town member | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | FMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 223458 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-11-11 22:31:05 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-11-11 22:31:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 78605. | S. Tomiya, S. P. Zack, M. Spaulding and J. J. Flynn. 2021. Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 95(82):1-115 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |