New Fork (Eocene of the United States)
Also known as Alkali Creek
Where: Sublette County, Wyoming (42.7° N, 110.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 93.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Cathedral Bluffs Tongue Member (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 15710: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• called "New Fork or Cathedral Bluff's exposures" by Gazin 1965b, and probably includes localities in the Alkali Creek Tongue and Farson Sandstone according to Holroyd pers. commun. 31 May 2001
this collection is NOT from West's New Fork-Big Sandy field area
Lostcabinian
this collection is NOT from West's New Fork-Big Sandy field area
Lostcabinian
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Mammalia | |
Hyopsodus wortmani Osborn 1902 condylarth
Hyopsodus cf. mentalis Cope 1875 condylarth
Hyopsodus cf. walcottianus Matthew 1915 condylarth | |
Sciuravus wilsoni Gazin 1961 rodent | |
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Notharctus cf. venticolus Osborn 1902 primate | |
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? Pachyaena sp. Cope 1874 condylarth | |
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Prolimnocyon cf. antiquus Matthew and Granger 1915 creodont | |
Uintacyon asodes Gazin 1952 placental | |
Didymictis altidens Cope 1880 placental
Viverravus lutosus Gazin 1952 placental | |
Hexacodus pelodes Gazin 1952 even-toed ungulate | |
Bunophorus cf. etsagicus Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate | |
Meniscotherium cf. chamense Cope 1874 condylarth | |
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Hyrachyus cf. modestus Leidy 1870 odd-toed ungulate | |
Hyracotherium vasacciense Cope 1872 odd-toed ungulate | |
Lambdotherium popoagicum Cope 1880 brontothere | |
Palaeosinopa cf. didelphoides Cope 1881 placental | |
Esthonyx acutidens Cope 1881 tillodont | |
cf. Bathyopsis fissidens Cope 1881 uintathere |