UCM locality 2011035 (Pu1): Puercan, Wyoming
collected by James & Jeannine Honey, Malcolm McKenna 2001-2011
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Neoplagiaulacidae
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Mesodma ambigua
Jepsen 1940
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Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Maiorana noctiluca
Van Valen 1978
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Atteberry and Eberle 2021 | |||||||||
| UCM 103093, 103130, 103131, 103147, 103158 and 103167 | ||||||||||
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Mimatuta sp.
Van Valen 1978
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Protungulatum donnae
Sloan and Van Valen 1965
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Oxyprimus sp.
Van Valen 1978
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Sigynorum magnadivisus n. gen., n. sp.
McComas and Eberle 2016
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| UCM 103133 - holotype (right mandible with p4m3, alveoli p1p3); Hypodigm. UCM 103086, right mandible with m23, m1 partial, alveoli p14; UCM 103088, right mandible with m2, alveoli c1m1, m3; UCM 103089, right mandible with m13, alveoli c1p4; UCM 103092, left mandible with p4m1, m2 partial, alveoli c1p3; UCM 103128, left mandible with m23, alveolus m1; UCM 103137, right mandible with p4m3; UCM 103139, left mandible with m13, broken p4, alveoli c1p3; UCM 103142, right mandible with p4m2; UCM 103154, left mandible with p4m3, alveoli p13; UCM 103159, right mandible with p2, p4m2, alveoli c1p1, p3, m3; UCM 103175, left mandible with worn p4m2, alveoli c1p3, m3 roots; UCM 103292, isolated left p4; UCM 103330, isolated right m2; UCM 103339, isolated left m3; UCM 108714, left mandible with m2m3, m1 partial; UCM 108715, left mandible with m3, m2 sheared; and UCM 108734, isolated left m3 | ||||||||||
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Sigynorum cf. magnadivisus
McComas and Eberle 2016
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| UCM 103140, right mandible with p4-m3, alveoli c1p3; and UCM 103168, right mandible with partial m1m3 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Periptychidae
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Conacodon harbourae
Eberle and Lillegraven 1998
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Atteberry and Eberle 2021 | |||||||||
| UCM 103085, 103155 and 108749 | ||||||||||
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Conacodon hettingeri n. sp.
Atteberry and Eberle 2021
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Atteberry and Eberle 2021 | |||||||||
| UCM 103374 - type | ||||||||||
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Beornus honeyi n. gen., n. sp.
Atteberry and Eberle 2021
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Atteberry and Eberle 2021 | |||||||||
| UCM 103183 - type | ||||||||||
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Ampliconus antoni
Eberle and Lillegraven 1998
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Atteberry and Eberle 2021 | |||||||||
| UCM 103150 and 103151 | ||||||||||
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Miniconus jeanninae n. sp.
Atteberry and Eberle 2021
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Atteberry and Eberle 2021 | |||||||||
| UCM 103181 - type; hypodigm: UCM 103171 and 103084 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Carbon |
| Coordinates: | 41.7° North, 107.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.4° North, 85.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Puercan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 63.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fort Union | Member: | China Butte | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Pu1
Great Divide Basin Approximately 46 m above the contact between the Lance and Fort Union formations | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",medium,coarse,gray,white sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | "channel" |
| Geology comments: High-energy channel deposit | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | UCM | ||
| Collectors: | James & Jeannine Honey, Malcolm McKenna | Collection dates: | 2001-2011 |
| Taxonomic list comments:To date, more than 350 mammalian fossils have been recovered from the site | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 174233 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-11-06 05:36:55 | Last modified: | 2021-08-18 05:07:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-11-06 05:36:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 56876. | K. M. McComas and J. J. Eberle. 2016. A new earliest Paleocene (Puercan) arctocyonid mammal from the Fort Union Formation, Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, and its phylogenetic position among early condylarths. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(6):445-459 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 77694 | M. R. Atteberry and J. J. Eberle. 2021. New earliest Paleocene (Puercan) periptychid ‘condylarths’ from the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, USA. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |