Elk Creek (280 m) (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as YPM 285, 289, 295, 301, USGS D-1298 (278 m), 1678 (278 m)

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 90.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: D. M. Schankler. 1980. Faunal Zonation of the Willwood Formation in the Central Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 24:99-114 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 15523: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• two USGS localities are in Washakie County
Reptilia
 Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Cardichelyon rogerwoodi3 Hutchison 2013 mud turtle
Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Esthonychidae
Esthonyx bisulcatus Cope 1874 tillodont
 Cimolesta - Pantolestidae
Palaeosinopa veterrima Matthew 1901 eutherian
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. Owen 1845 pantodont
"2"
 Macroscelidea - Apheliscidae
Apheliscus sp. Cope 1875 elephant shrew
"wapitiensis/insidiosus"
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870 condylarth
"latidens/miticulus"
 Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Oxyaena sp. Cope 1874 creodont
"intermedia/forcipata"
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Arfia sp.1 Van Valen 1965 creodont
Prototomus sp. Cope 1874 creodont
"1"
 Theriamorpha - Viverravidae
Viverravus sp. Marsh 1872 placental
"V. acutus/gracilis"
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Phenacodus sp.1 Cope 1873 condylarth
Ectocion osbornianus Cope 1882 condylarth
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Hyracotherium aemulor" = Arenahippus aemulor
"Hyracotherium aemulor" = Arenahippus aemulor Gingerich 1991 horse
"H. sp. 2"
 Artiodactyla - Diacodexeidae
"Diacodexis robustus" = Bunophorus robustus, Diacodexis sp.1
"Diacodexis robustus" = Bunophorus robustus Sinclair 1914 even-toed ungulate
Diacodexis sp.1 Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys cf. copei Loomis 1907 rodent
Paramys cf. excavatus Loomis 1907 rodent
 Rodentia - Sciuravidae
cf. Knightomys minor1 Wood 1965 rodent
 Dermoptera -
Plagiomene multicuspis Matthew 1918 colugo
 Primates - Paromomyidae
Phenacolemurinae indet.1 Simpson 1955 primate
 Primates - Omomyidae
Tetonius sp.2 Matthew 1915 tarsier
 Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyopidae indet.1 Osborn and Wortman 1892 primate
"Haplomylus speirianus" = Microsyops speirianus Cope 1880 primate
Niptomomys doreenae McKenna 1960 primate
 Primates - Notharctidae
Cantius sp.1 Simons 1962 primate
 Theriamorpha - Peradectidae
Mimoperadectes labrus Bown and Rose 1979 marsupial