Elk Creek (550 m) (Eocene of the United States)
Also known as YPM 63, 100
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 15550: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
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Taxonomic list
• status of this list is seriously in question because Bown et al. 1994 give no meter level for YPM 63 and an incongruent level of 455 m (= old 534) for YPM 100
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"Hyracotherium grangeri" = Sifrhippus grangeri
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Phenacodus vortmani Cope 1880 condylarth | |
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Anacodon ursidens Cope 1882 condylarth | |
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Paramys cf. excavatus Loomis 1907 rodent | |
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