FG-47: Tiffanian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Paromomyidae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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| Secord 2008 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proteutheria
- Palaeoryctidae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming |
| Coordinates: | 44.7° North, 108.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 53.4° North, 75.5° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 | ||
| Key time interval: | Tiffanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 60.9 - 56.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fort Union | ||||
| Local section: | South Foster Gulch | Local bed: | 180 | ||
| Regional section: | MP Southeast | Regional bed: | 340 | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Ti-? | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "siliciclastic" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. | Tectonic setting: | intermontane basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UMMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 46653 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Clyde, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | W. Clyde, P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | W. Clyde | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-01-24 09:55:25 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-01-24 09:55:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11717. | W. C. Clyde. 1997. Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. PhD Thesis, University of Michigan [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 63104 | R. Secord. 2008. The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 35:1-192 [K. Beard/K. Beard] |