SC-85/86 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 88.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• meter level said to be 840 m by Butler et al. 1981 but shown at about 810 m by Secord et al. 2006; SC-85 is topographically higher (1985 UM map) but no stratigraphic distinction is made by Butler et al.

•near the bottom of chron C25n according to both Butler et al. 1981 and Secord et al. 2006

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UMMP

Primary reference: G. F. Gunnell and P. D. Gingerich. 1991. Systematics and Evolution of Late Paleocene and Early Eocene Oxyaenidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(7):141-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 15056: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Dipsalodon churchillorum Rose 1981 creodont
 Primates - Plesiadapidae
Plesiadapis sp. Gervais 1877 primate
either P. fodinatus or "possibly" P. dubius