Tepee Trail Bone Bed A: Uintan, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Neoplagiaulacidae indet. Ameghino 1890
McKenna 1980
Mammalia - Leptictidae
Leptictidae indet. Gill 1872
"?undescribed species"
    = Palaeictops sp. Matthew 1899
McKenna 1980
Mammalia - Rodentia
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821
McKenna 1980
two forms
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Microparamys cf. dubius (Wood 1949)
McKenna 1980
Mammalia - Rodentia - Reithroparamyidae
? Reithroparamys sp. Matthew 1920
McKenna 1980
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Eomyidae indet. Winge 1887
McKenna 1980
? Protadjidaumo typus Burke 1934
McKenna 1980
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae
Sciuravus sp. Marsh 1871
McKenna 1980
said to be new
    = Sciuravidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
McKenna 1972
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Uintasoricinae indet. Szalay 1969
McKenna 1980
Uintasorex parvulus Matthew 1909
McKenna 1980
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae
Paromomyidae indet. Simpson 1940
McKenna 1990
"Phenacolemur or Ignacius sp." - replaces Phenacolemur DUPLICATE REF 2537 or 2538
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Omomyidae indet. Gazin 1958
McKenna 1980
cf. Trogolemur myodes Matthew 1909
McKenna 1980
Tarka stylifera McKenna 1990
McKenna 1990
"worlandiine dermopteran" DUPLICATE REF 2537 or 2538 (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
cf. Proterix sp. Matthew 1903
    = Ocajila sp. Macdonald 1963
McKenna 1980
    = Galericinae indet. Pomel 1848
Novacek et al. 1985
see discussion in Korth 1994; McKenna presumably employs a taxonomic concept similar to that of Eaton 1985 because Ocajila is otherwise known only from the late Oligocene
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae
Nyctitherium sp. Marsh 1872
McKenna 1980
Mammalia - Oligoryctidae
Oligoryctes sp. Hough 1956
McKenna 1980
    = Oligoryctes altitalonidus Clark 1936
Asher et al. 2002
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Microchiroptera indet. Dobson 1875
"an insectivorous bat"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Forstercooperia sp. Wood 1939
McKenna 1980
    = Rhinocerotoidea indet. Gray 1821
Krishtalka et al. 1987
"titanothere"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Amynodon sp. Marsh 1877
McKenna 1980
    = Amynodon advenus Marsh 1875
McKenna 1990
DUPLICATE REF 2537 or 2538
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Dilophodon cf. minusculus Scott 1883
    = Dilophodon minusculus Scott 1883
McKenna 1980
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hyracotheriinae indet. Cope 1881
(4 measurements)
    = Epihippus uintensis Marsh 1875
McKenna 1980
    = Epihippus gracilis Marsh 1871
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Helohyidae
Achaenodon sp. (Cope 1873)
McKenna 1980
original and current combination Archaenodon
Mammalia - Dichobunidae
Dichobunidae indet. Gill 1872
McKenna 1980
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
? Homacodontidae indet. Marsh 1849
"? homacodont sp."
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Protictis aprophatos n. sp. Flynn and Galiano 1982
McKenna 1980
    = Protictoides aprophatos Flynn and Galiano 1982
Flynn and Galiano 1982
"Protictis sp."
Mammalia - Epoicotheriidae
cf. Tetrapassalus sp. Simpson 1959
McKenna 1980
described by Rose 1978
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus cf. uintensis Osborn 1902
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Apatemys sp. Marsh 1872
McKenna 1980
Mammalia - Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
Herpetotherium sp. Cope 1873
McKenna 1980
    = Didelphidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
Mammalia
Peradectes sp. Matthew and Granger 1921
McKenna 1980
Reptilia - Lacertilia
Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Fremont
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 108.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.9° North, 96.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Uintan
Age range of interval:46.20000 - 40.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tepee Trail Member:Unit 24
Local section:EFork Local bed:5
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:about 35 miles east of main Togwotee Pass field area and not directly correlated with that section
type section of formation
Metadata
Also known as:TTA Quarry
Database number:16630
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2019-12-16 16:25:18
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

71260. M. C. McKenna. 1972. Vertebrate paleontology of the Togwotee Pass area, northwestern Wyoming. In R. M. West (ed.), Field Conference on Tertiary Biostratigraphy of Southern and Western Wyoming, August 5-10, 1972 80-101 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1496 J. J. Flynn and H. Galiano. 1982. Phylogeny of early Tertiary Carnivora, with a description of a new species of Protictis from the middle Eocene of northwestern Wyoming. American Museum Novitates 2725:1-64 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
6259 L. Krishtalka, R. K. Stucky, R. M. West, M. C. McKenna, C. C. Black, T. M. Bown, M. R. Dawson, D. J. Golz, J. J. Flynn, J. A. Lillegraven, and W. D. Turnbull. 1987. Eocene (Wasatchian through Duchesnean) biochronology of North America. In M. O. Woodburne (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy 77-117 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2536 M. C. McKenna. 1980. Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance, Togwotee Pass area, northwestern Wyoming. Aspects of Vertebrate History: Essays in Honor of Edwin Harris Colbert, L. L. Jacobs (ed.), Museum of Northern Arizona Press 323-343 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
2537 M. C. McKenna. 1990. Plagiomenids (Mammalia: ?Dermoptera) from the Oligocene of Oregon, Montana, and South Dakota, and middle Eocene of northwestern Wyoming. Geological Society of America Special Paper 243:211-234 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/K. Beard]
2668 M. J. Novacek, T. M. Bown, and D. Schankler. 1985. On the classification of early Tertiary Erinaceomorpha (Insectivora, Mammalia). American Museum Novitates 2813:1-22 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]