USGS D-1651: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Hadrianus sp. Cope 1872
Holroyd et al. 2001
Mammalia - Esthonychidae
Megalesthonyx sp. Rose 1971
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Lambdotherium sp. Cope 1880
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Strigorhysis cf. bridgerensis Bown 1979
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Washakie
Coordinates: 44.0° North, 108.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.7° North, 90.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Wasatchian
Age range of interval:54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Willwood
Local section:ElkCr Local bed:715 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: "about 100 m beneath the base of the Tatman Formation"
636 m in revised section, equivalent to 715 m in original section
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V96148
Database number:15569
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2006-04-19 21:19:05
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
1123. T. M. Bown and K. D. Rose. 1987. Patterns of Dental Evolution in Early Eocene Anaptomorphine Primates (Omomyidae) from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Paleontological Society Memoir 23:1-162 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

17201 P. A. Holroyd, J. H. Hutchison, and S. G. Strait. 2001. Turtle diversity and abundance through the lower Eocene Willwood Formation of the southern Bighorn Basin. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 33:97-108 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]