Fossil Butte (Upper) (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Lincoln County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 110.7° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 94.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Wasatch Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: C. L. Gazin. 1962. A Further Study Of The Lower Eocene Mammalian Faunas Of Southwestern Wyoming. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 144(1):1-98 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 15597: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd
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Taxonomic list
• said to be in the "Knight Fm." and "close below the Green River shales" (i.e., Fossil Butte Mbr.)
apparently same as Fossil Butte NM west of Kemmerer; see Grande 1984
apparently same as Fossil Butte NM west of Kemmerer; see Grande 1984
Show authors, comments, and common names
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Ectoganus sp. Cope 1874 taeniodont | |
Reithroparamys sp. Matthew 1920 rodent apparently the specimen from "Lysite equivalent, saddle north of Fossil Butte" that is "questionably referred" to R. debequensis by Wood 1962
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Copelemur australotutus n. sp.2
Copelemur australotutus n. sp.2 Beard 1988 primate single "Pelycodus nr. jarrovii" specimen from "the north side (saddle) of Fossil Butte"; the only other specimen from the north side explicitly mentioned by Gazin is Meniscotherium sp., from the upper levels
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Heptodon sp. Cope 1882 odd-toed ungulate | |
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Hexacodus uintensis Gazin 1952 even-toed ungulate | |
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Didymictis altidens Cope 1880 placental | |
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