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