Leidy Quarry: Puercan, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Mimatuta makpialutae Van Valen 1978
Ragnarok wovokae n. sp. Van Valen 1978
    = Baioconodon wovokae Van Valen 1978
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Hot Springs
Coordinates: 43.7° North, 108.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.5° North, 85.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Puercan
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 63.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fort Union
Stratigraphy comments: Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation'
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:14807
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2021-03-16 09:18:08
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3485. L. M. Van Valen. 1978. The beginning of the Age of Mammals. Evolutionary Theory 4:45-80 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]