FG-37 (Paleogene of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (44.7° N, 108.3° W: paleocoordinates 50.0° N, 89.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Union Formation, Cf1 (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)

• Cf-1

• 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: W. C. Clyde. 1997. Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. PhD Thesis, University of Michigan [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46649: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Will Clyde on 24.01.2005, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Ectocion osbornianus Cope 1882 condylarth
Phenacodus grangeri Simpson 1935 condylarth
Phenacodus vortmani Cope 1880 condylarth
 Primates - Paromomyidae
"Phenacolemur pagei" = Dillerlemur pagei
"Phenacolemur pagei" = Dillerlemur pagei Jepsen 1930 primate
 Primates - Plesiadapidae
Plesiadapis gingerichi Rose 1981 primate
 Primates - Carpolestidae
Carpolestes nigridens Simpson 1928 primate
 Dinocerata - Prodinoceratidae
Probathyopsis harrisorum Patterson 1939 uintathere
Probathyopsis harrisorum Patterson 1939 uintathere
Reptilia
 Loricata -
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian