Paint Creek: Clarkforkian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Microcosmodontidae
Microcosmodon rosei Krause 1980
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Ectypodus powelli Jepsen 1940
Parectypodus laytoni (Jepsen 1940)
original and current combination Ectypodus laytoni
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Ptilodontidae
Prochetodon taxus Krause 1987
Krause 1987
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Neoliotomus conventus Jepsen 1930
Krause 1980
Jepsen's type, not clear why this is omitted by Krause 1986
Mammalia - Dinocerata - Prodinoceratidae
Probathyopsis sp. Simpson 1929
may or may not include type of P. successor; Gingerich 1980b seems to be sure of the provenance, but Rose is equivocal
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Labidolemur kayi Simpson 1929
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Apheliscus nitidus Simpson 1937
Aletodon gunnelli Gingerich 1977
Aletodon gunnelli Gingerich 1977
Secord 2008
Mammalia - Macroscelidea
Diacodon minutus Jepsen 1930
    = cf. Diacocherus minutus Jepsen 1930
Alroy 2002
recombined as Adunator minutus
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae
cf. Pontifactor bestiola West 1974
cf. Plagioctenodon krausae Bown 1979
Mammalia - Metacheiromyidae
Palaeanodon ? parvulus Matthew 1918
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Didymictis sp. Cope 1875
    = Didymictis proteus Polly 1997
Polly 1997
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Phenacodus sp. Cope 1873
    = Phenacodontidae indet. Cope 1881
Alroy 2002
Ectocion osbornianus (Cope 1882)
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Princetonia yalensis Gingerich 1989
Gingerich 1989
most specimens of "cf. Tricentes sp."
Thryptacodon cf. pseudarctos Simpson 1928
Mammalia - Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Dissacus sp. Cope 1881
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops simplicidens Rose 1981
    = Arctodontomys simplicidens Rose 1981
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae
Phenacolemur pagei Jepsen 1930
    = Dillerlemur pagei Jepsen 1930
Alroy 2002
Phenacolemur pagei Jepsen 1930
Secord 2008
recombined as Dillerlemur pagei
Phenacolemur praecox Matthew 1915
Mammalia - Primates - Plesiadapidae
Plesiadapis cookei Jepsen 1930
Plesiadapis gingerichi Rose 1981
Bloch and Gingerich 1998
one new specimen
Plesiadapis dubius (Matthew 1915)
(6 measurements)
Chiromyoides major n. sp. Gingerich 1975
Gingerich 1975
Chiromyoides major Gingerich 1975
Secord 2008
Mammalia - Primates - Carpolestidae
Carpolestes simpsoni Bloch and Gingerich 1998
Bloch and Gingerich 1998
one new specimen
Carpolestes nigridens Simpson 1928
OK according to Bloch and Gingerich 1998
Reptilia - Anguidae
Machaerosaurus torrejonensis Gilmore 1928
Bartels 1983
Melanosaurus maximus Gilmore 1928
Bartels 1983
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Park
Coordinates: 44.3° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.7° North, 90.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1-2
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Paleocene
Key time interval:Clarkforkian
Age range of interval:56.20000 - 54.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:191 specimens
Museum repositories:UMMP
Taxonomic list comments:Jepsen 1940 considers this Wasatchian
level unknown
record of "Pelycodus" reported by Gingerich 1976 is probably spurious: Gingerich and Simons 1977
Metadata
Also known as:SC-143
Database number:15089
Authorizer:J. Alroy, W. Clyde, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, W. Clyde, P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:40
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2159. D. W. Krause. 1986. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming Special Paper 3 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
724 W. S. Bartels. 1983. A transitional Paleocene-Eocene reptile fauna from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Herpetologica 39(4):359-374 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]
1099 J. I. Bloch and P. D. Gingerich. 1998. Carpolestes simpsoni, New Species (Mammalia, Proprimates) from the Late Paleocene of the Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(4):131-162 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
1634 P. D. Gingerich. 1975. New North American Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates) and a biostratigraphic zonation of the middle and upper Paleocene. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 24(13):135-148 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1657 P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
2157 D. W. Krause. 1980. Multituberculates from the Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age, Late Paleocene-Early Eocene, of Western North America. Journal of Paleontology 54(6):1163-1183 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2161 D. W. Krause. 1987. Systematic Revision of the Genus Prochetodon (Ptilodontidae, Multituberculata) from the Late Paleocene and Early Eocene of Western North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(8):221-236 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
2787 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]
63104 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]