UMMP SC-144 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.9° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 50.7° N, 88.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Ti-5a mammal zone, Fort Union Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the UMMP

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190414: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 07.12.2017

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Dinocerata - Prodinoceratidae
Probathyopsis harrisorum Patterson 1939 uintathere
 Cimolesta - Cyriacotheriidae
Cyriacotherium argyreum Rose and Krause 1982 pantodont
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Phenacodus grangeri Simpson 1935 condylarth
 Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Arctocyon cf. nexus Gazin 1956 condylarth
Thryptacodon pseudarctos Simpson 1928 condylarth
 Primates - Carpolestidae
Carpolestes dubius Jepsen 1930 primate