Mark’s Locality (WMU 110): Clarkforkian, Wyoming
collected 1994
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Neoplagiaulacidae
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Parectypodus sp.
Jepsen 1930
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Ptilodontidae
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Prochetodon sp.
Jepsen 1940
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Rodentia indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Anemone et al. 2000 | |||||||||
= Ischyromyidae indet.
Alston 1876
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Paromomyidae
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Phenacolemur sp.
Matthew 1915
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Anemone et al. 2000 | |||||||||
= Phenacolemur cf. pagei
Jepsen 1930
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
recombined as Dillerlemur pagei | ||||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Plesiadapidae
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Chiromyoides major
Gingerich 1975
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Anemone et al. 2000 | |||||||||
= cf. Plesiadapis sp.
Gervais 1877
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Plesiadapis sp.
Gervais 1877
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= Plesiadapis dubius
Matthew 1915
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Anemone et al. 2000 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Plesiadapis sp.
Gervais 1877
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= Plesiadapis cookei
Jepsen 1930
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Anemone et al. 2000 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Carpolestidae
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Carpolestes sp.
Simpson 1928
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= Carpolestes nigridens
Simpson 1928
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Mammalia
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Insectivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Anemone et al. 2000 | |||||||||
= Diacocherus sp.
Gingerich 1983
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Nyctitheriidae
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Plagioctenodon sp.
Bown 1979
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Ectocion osbornianus
(Cope 1882)
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Phenacodus sp.
Cope 1873
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Thryptacodon sp.
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Viverravidae
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Didymictis sp.
Cope 1875
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Macroscelidea
- Apheliscidae
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Apheliscus sp.
Cope 1875
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= Apheliscus nitidus
Simpson 1937
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Pantolestidae
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Palaeosinopa sp.
Matthew 1901
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
Mammalia
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Peradectes sp.
Matthew and Granger 1921
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Anemone and Dirks 2009 | |||||||||
WMU-VP | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Sweetwater |
Coordinates: | 41.7° North, 109.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 47.1° North, 91.1° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
Stage: | Thanetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
*Period: | Tertiary | *Local age/stage: | Clarkforkian |
Key time interval: | Clarkforkian | ||
Age range of interval: | 56.80000 - 55.80000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Fort Union | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: two beds in Upper Fort Union Formation, close to the mapped but locally unexposed contact between the Fort Union and the overlying Wasatch formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray,green silty mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: grey-green silty mudstones | |
Environment: | "floodplain" |
Geology comments: overbank deposit |
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 | Collection dates: | 1994 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Ten Mile Draw; WMU locality 110; Bitter Creek Road; Twelvemile Well | ||
Database number: | 15216 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2000-06-17 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2021-03-16 14:47:37 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-06-17 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
955. | R. L. Anemone, E. M. Johnson, and C. M. Rubick. 1999. Primates and other mammals from the Great Divide Basin, SW Wyoming: systematics, geology, and chronology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 28:84 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
75905 | R. L. Anemone and W. Dirks. 2009. An anachronistic Clarkforkian mammal fauna from the Paleocene Fort Union Formation (Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, USA). Geologica Acta 7(1-2):113-124 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
954 | R. L. Anemone, E. M. Johnson, B. A. Nachman and D. J. Over. 2000. A new clarkforkian primate fauna from the great divide basin, SW Wyoming. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 30:97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |