Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.4° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 91.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the UMMP
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: P. D. Polly. 1997. Ancestry and Species Definition in Paleontology: A Stratocladistic Analysis of Paleocene-Eocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(1):1-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 15688: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998, edited by Leah Gannon and Will Clyde
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia | |
Allognathosuchus sp. Mook 1921 crocodilian | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Mammalia | |
Hyopsodus miticulus Cope 1874 condylarth | |
Diacodexis metsiacus Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate | |
Chriacus sp. Cope 1883 condylarth | |
Phenacodus sp. Cope 1873 condylarth | |
Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841 odd-toed ungulate | |
Vulpavus sp. Marsh 1871 placental | |
Didymictis sp. Cope 1875 placental
Didymictis protenus Cope 1874 placental
Viverravus sp. Marsh 1872 placental
Viverravus acutus Matthew and Granger 1915 placental | |
Cantius abditus Gingerich and Simons 1977 primate |