Schaff Quarry: Tiffanian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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Amia fragosa
Jordan 1927
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Estes 1975 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
PU 21174, three vertebral centra | ||||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Scapherpeton tectum
Cope 1876
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Estes 1975 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
PU 19500, a questionably referred humerus | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Pancelosaurus piger
(Gilmore 1928)
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Estes 1975 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Odaxosaurus piger | ||||||||||
PU 19466, left dentary | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Exostinus rugosus
Gilmore 1942
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Estes 1975 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Restes rugosus | ||||||||||
PU 19487, fragment of left maxilla | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Paromomyidae
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Phenacolemur pagei
Jepsen 1930
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Rose 1981 | |||||||||
= Dillerlemur pagei
Jepsen 1930
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Carpolestidae
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Carpolestes dubius
Jepsen 1930
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Rose 1975 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Plesiadapidae
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Plesiadapis fodinatus
Jepsen 1930
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Gingerich 1976 | |||||||||
(6 measurements) | ||||||||||
Chiromyoides cf. potior
Gingerich 1975
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Gingerich 1976 | |||||||||
= Chiromyoides sp.
Stehlin 1916
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
species-level i.d. clearly based on circular stratigraphic reasoning | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Micromomyidae
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Micromomys silvercouleei
Szalay 1973
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Gunnell 1989 | |||||||||
= Micromomys gunnelli n. sp.
Secord 2008
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Secord 2008 | |||||||||
recombined as Foxomomys gunnelli | ||||||||||
Micromomys gunnelli n. sp.
Secord 2008
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Secord 2008 | |||||||||
recombined as Foxomomys gunnelli | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Viverravidae
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Protictis schaffi n. sp.
Gingerich and Winkler 1985
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Gingerich and Winkler 1985 | |||||||||
= Viverravus politus
Matthew and Granger 1915
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
"cf. V. sp." of Rose 1981a, said to be new | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Princetonia yalensis
Gingerich 1989
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Gingerich 1989 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Nyctitheriidae
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Wyonycteris microtis n. sp.
Secord 2008
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Secord 2008 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Litolestes ignotus
Jepsen 1930
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Novacek et al. 1985 | |||||||||
"Schaff Quarry southwest" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Ptilodontidae
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Prochetodon cavus
Jepsen 1940
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Krause 1987 | |||||||||
(5 measurements) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Microcosmodontidae
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Microcosmodon conus
Jepsen 1930
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Park |
Coordinates: | 44.9° North, 108.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 50.8° North, 88.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
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 | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation'
just below Princeton Quarry in the middle of chron C25r: Secord et al. 2006 |
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: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 15065 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, K. Beard | Enterer: | J. Alroy, K. Beard |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2021-03-16 09:27:32 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2155. | D. W. Krause. 1977. Paleocene Multituberculates (Mammalia) of the Roche Percée Local Fauna, Ravenscrag Formation, Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 159:1-36 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
709 | R. Estes. 1975. Lower vertebrates from the Fort Union Formation, Late Paleocene, Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. Herpetologica 31(4):365-385 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy] | |
1635 | P. D. Gingerich. 1976. Cranial Anatomy and Evolution of Early Tertiary Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates). University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 15:1-141 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] | |
1657 | P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
1676 | P. D. Gingerich and D. A. Winkler. 1985. Systematics of Paleocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) in the Bighorn Basin and Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(4):87-128 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
1730 | G. F. Gunnell. 1989. Evolutionary History of Microsyopoidea (Mammalia, ?Primates) and the Relationship Between Plesiadapiformes and Primates. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 27:1-157 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] | |
2161 | D. W. Krause. 1987. Systematic Revision of the Genus Prochetodon (Ptilodontidae, Multituberculata) from the Late Paleocene and Early Eocene of Western North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(8):221-236 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] | |
2668 | M. J. Novacek, T. M. Bown, and D. Schankler. 1985. On the classification of early Tertiary Erinaceomorpha (Insectivora, Mammalia). American Museum Novitates 2813:1-22 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
2947 | K. D. Rose. 1975. The Carpolestidae: Early Tertiary primates from North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 147(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
2953 | K. D. Rose. 1981. The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 26:1-197 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] | |
63104 | R. Secord. 2008. The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 35:1-192 [K. Beard/K. Beard] |