Ferris Formation (UW V-91010) (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Crashing Ledge Locality

Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 48.4° N, 84.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ferris Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)

• said to be early Puercan

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UW

Primary reference: J. J. Eberle and J. A. Lillegraven. 1998. A new important record of earliest Cenozoic mammalian history: geologic setting, Multituberculata, and Peradectia. Rocky Mountain Geology 33(1):3-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 14708: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Protungulatum donnae Sloan and Van Valen 1965 condylarth
Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
"Cyclurus fragosa" = Cyclurus fragosus
"Cyclurus fragosa" = Cyclurus fragosus Jordan 1927 bowfin
UW 27326
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar
UW 27337