PBDB Collection

Table Rock: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Leptictidae

	Palaeictops sp. Matthew 1899
	= Leptictidae indet. Gill 1872	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Erinaceidae

	Entomolestes sp. Matthew 1909	Hamrick and Covert 1991
	confirms Gazin's i.d. of "cf. Entomolestes sp."
Mammalia - Viverravidae

	cf. Viverravus sp. Marsh 1872
Mammalia - Perissodactyla

	Heptodon sp. Cope 1882	Roehler 1987
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841
	= Equidae indet. Gray 1821	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae

	Lambdotherium sp. Cope 1880
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae

	Meniscotherium sp. Cope 1874
	= Meniscotherium chamense Cope 1874	Williamson and Lucas 1992
Mammalia - Homacodontidae

	Hexacodus sp. Gazin 1952
	= Hexacodus pelodes Gazin 1952	Roehler 1987
	in part

	Hexacodus sp. Gazin 1952
	= Hexacodus uintensis Gazin 1952	Roehler 1987
	in part
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae

	Diacodexis sp. Cope 1882
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae

	Cynodontomys latidens Cope 1882
	= Microsyops latidens Cope 1882	Roehler 1987
	"C. sp."
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae

	Phenacolemur sp. Matthew 1915
	= Phenacolemurinae indet. Simpson 1955	Alroy 2002
	"P. praecox" of Roehler 1987, which could be Simpsonlemur given date of Gazin's pers. comm.
Mammalia - Primates - Plesiadapidae

	cf. Trogolemur myodes Matthew 1909	Covert and Hamrick 1993
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae

	Absarokius sp. Matthew 1915
	= Absarokius abbotti Loomis 1906	Covert and Hamrick 1993

	Chlororhysis sp. Gazin 1958	Covert and Hamrick 1993

	Loveina minuta (Loomis 1906)	Covert and Hamrick 1993
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

	Notharctus nunienus (Cope 1881)
	= Cantius nunienus Cope 1881	Roehler 1987
	includes "? Notharctus sp." and his "Notharctus limosus"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae

	Paramys sp. Leidy 1871
	"about the size of P. copei and P. excavatus"; Roehler 1987 lists both, but this may be a misunderstanding of Gazin's comments
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae

	Sciuravidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
	"very small"
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae

	Hyopsodus miticulus (Cope 1874)
	= Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870	Roehler 1987
	"H. sp." in part

	Hyopsodus wortmani Osborn 1902	Roehler 1987
	includes "H. sp." in part as well as "H. minor" of Roehler
Mammalia - Insectivora

	Insectivora indet. Bowdich 1821
	"cf. Diacodon"
Reptilia - Anguidae

	Glyptosaurus sp. Marsh 1871	ElShafie 2024
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Wyoming	County:	Sweetwater
Coordinates:	41.7° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	46.6° North, 92.6° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Paleogene	Epoch:	Eocene
Stage:	Ypresian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 2
*Period:	Tertiary
Key time interval:	Wasatchian
Age range of interval:	54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Wasatch	Member:	Niland Tongue
Local section:	Washa	Local bed:	2
Local order:	bottom to top

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:	USGS
Taxonomic list comments:said by Gazin to be "Tipton Tongue" of Wasatch Fm.; however, originally reported by McGrew and Roehler 1960 as Niland Tongue, and this was repeated by Roehler 1987, Roehler and Stanton 1992 and Covert and Hamrick 1991 USGS number and coordintes given by Roehler 1987, whose list is based on a 1969 Gazin pers. comm. SE 1/4 SE 1/4 NE 1/4 sec 8 T 18 N R 98 W

Metadata

Also known as:	USGS D786; UW V-58001
Database number:	15842
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, P. Holroyd	Enterer:	J. Alroy, P. Holroyd
Modifier:	P. Holroyd	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-02-18 00:00:00	Last modified:	2024-01-07 17:57:53
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

1618.

C. L. Gazin. 1965. Early Eocene mammalian faunas and their environment in the vicinity of the Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 19:171-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1284		H. H. Covert and M. W. Hamrick. 1993. Description of new skeletal remains of the early Eocene anaptomorphine primate Absarokius (Omomyidae) and a discussion about its adaptive profile. Journal of Human Evolution 25 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
87093		S. J. ElShafie. 2024. Body size estimation from isolated fossil bones reveals deep time evolutionary trends in North American lizards. PLoS ONE 19(1:e0296318):1-25 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
1779		M. W. Hamrick and H. H. Covert. 1991. A late Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Washakie Basin, Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11:33A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2933		H. W. Roehler. 1987. Geological investigations of the Vermillion Creek coal bed in the Eocene Niland Tongue of the Wasatch Formation, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1314-C:25-45 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3647		T. E. Williamson and S. G. Lucas. 1992. Meniscotherium (Mammalia, "Condylarthra) from the Paleocene-Eocene of Western North America). New Mex Museum of Natural History Science Bulletin 1:1-75 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]