Jepsen Valley Quarry: Tiffanian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
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Peradectes elegans
Matthew and Granger 1921
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Mammalia
- Macroscelidea
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Diacodon minutus
Jepsen 1930
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= Diacocherus minutus
Jepsen 1930
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Adunator minutus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Viverravidae
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Protictis sp.
(Matthew)
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= Viverravidae indet.
Wortman and Matthew 1899
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Miacidae
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Viverravinae indet.
Matthew 1909
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Mammalia
- Metacheiromyidae
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Propalaeanodon schaffi n. gen., n. sp.
Rose 1979
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Rose 1979 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Thryptacodon sp.
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Litolestes ignotus
Jepsen 1930
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Mammalia
- Pantolestidae
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Pantolestidae indet.
Cope 1884
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Mammalia
- Nyctitheriidae
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Leptacodon packi
Jepsen 1930
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Plesiadapidae
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Plesiadapis fodinatus
Jepsen 1930
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Carpolestidae
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Carpolestes dubius
Jepsen 1930
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Mammalia
- Leptictidae
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? Palaeictops sp.
Matthew 1899
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Microcosmodontidae
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Pentacosmodon pronus
Jepsen 1940
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Park |
| Coordinates: | 44.9° North, 108.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 50.7° North, 88.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Tiffanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 60.90000 - 56.20000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fort Union | ||||
| Local section: | Clark | Local bed: | 720 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation'
"about 40 m stratigraphically above Princeton Quarry" (i.e., 720 m): Secord et al. 2002 | |||||
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 size: | 94 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:NOT the same as Jepsen Quarry | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 15032 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2021-03-16 09:25:57 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3020. | C. R. Schaff. 1985. National Geographic Society Research Reports 20 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 2952 | K. D. Rose. 1979. A new Paleocene palaeanodont and the origin of the Metacheiromyidae (Mammalia). Breviora 455:1-14 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 7666 | R. Secord, P. D. Gingerich, and J. I. Bloch. 2002. Mylanodon rosei, a new metacheiromyid (Mammalia, Palaeanodonta) from the late Tiffanian (late Paleocene) of northwestern Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(15):385-399 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |