PBDB Collection

Badwater Locality 20: Duchesnean, Wyoming

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Anguidae

	Anguidae indet. Gray 1825	ElShafie 2024
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae

	Ectypodus sp. Matthew and Granger 1921
	= Ectypodus lovei Sloan 1966	Storer 1993
	described by Krishtalka and Black 1975 DUPLICATE REF 3312 or 3313 or 3314
Mammalia - Leptictidae

	Palaeictops sp. Matthew 1899
Mammalia - Chiroptera

	Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
	a bat
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Amphilemuridae

	Nyctitherium robinsoni (Krishtalka and Setoguchi 1977)
	original and current combination Macrocranion robinsoni

	Ankylodon talonidus
	= Ankylodon sp. Patterson and McGrew 1937	Alroy 2002
	(apparently a manuscript name)

	Amphilemur sp. Heller 1935
Mammalia - Carnivora

	Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae

	Daphoenus demilo Dawson 1980
	= Daphoenus lambei Russell 1934	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae

	? Telmatherium cf. cultridens (Osborn et al. 1878)
	synonym of Telmatherium validus
	described by Black 1979 (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Protoceratidae

	Poabromylus golzi Black 1978
	(4 measurements)

	Leptotragulus medius Peterson 1919
Mammalia - Agriochoeridae

	Diplobunops matthewi Peterson 1919
	= Agriochoerus matthewi Peterson 1919	Alroy 2002
	original and current combination Diplobunops matthewi
Mammalia - Leptomerycidae

	Hendryomeryx wilsoni Black 1978
	(4 measurements)
Mammalia - Geolabididae

	Centetodon hendryi Lillegraven et al. 1981	Lillegraven et al. 1981
	species "C" of Maas

	Centetodon magnus (Clark 1936)
Mammalia - Soricidae

	Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814
	"B"

	Domnina sp. Cope 1873

	Domnina cf. gradata Cope 1873
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae

	Nyctitherium sp. Marsh 1872

	Nyctitherium christopheri Krishtalka and Setoguchi 1977
Mammalia - Apternodontidae

	Apternodus cf. iliffensis Galbreath 1953
	= Apternodontidae indet. Matthew 1910	Robinson and Kron 1998
	possibly a new genus
Mammalia - Erinaceidae

	Entomolestes sp. Matthew 1909
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae

	Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817

	Mytonolagus wyomingensis Wood 1949
Mammalia - Rodentia - Allomyidae

	Spurimus selbyi Black 1971

	Spurimus scotti Black 1971
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae

	Sciuravidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918

	Sciuravus sp. Marsh 1871
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae

	Pseudocylindrodon tobeyi Black 1970
	"P. nr. tobeyi" and "? P. sp." also listed

	Pareumys lewisi Black 1974
	= Anomeomys lewisi Black 1974	Alroy 2002
	presumably = "Pareumys cf. guensburgi" of Black 1974

	Pareumys sp. Peterson 1919
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae

	Eomyidae indet. Winge 1887
	two forms
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae

	Microparamys dubius (Wood 1949)	Black and Sutton 1984

	Leptotomus guildayi Black 1971
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae

	Ignacius mcgrewi (Robinson 1968)
	recombined as Walshina mcgrewi
	see also Krishtalka 1978
Mammalia

	Peradectes cf. minutus (McGrew 1937)
	= Nanodelphys cf. hunti Cope 1873	Krishtalka and Stucky 1983
	recombined as Nanodelphys huntii

	Peradectes californicus (Stock 1936)	Krishtalka and Stucky 1983

	Peratherium innominatum Simpson 1928
	= Copedelphys innominata Simpson 1928	Krishtalka and Stucky 1983
	recombined as Herpetotherium innominatum

	Peratherium knighti McGrew et al. 1959
	= Herpetotherium knighti McGrew et al. 1959	Krishtalka and Stucky 1983

	Peratherium marsupium (Troxell 1923)
	= Herpetotherium marsupium Troxell 1923	Krishtalka and Stucky 1983
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Wyoming	County:	Natrona
Coordinates:	43.2° North, 107.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	45.1° North, 97.5° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Paleogene	Epoch:	Eocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 3
*Period:	Tertiary
Key time interval:	Duchesnean
Age range of interval:	39.70000 - 37.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Wagon Bed ("Tepee Trail")	Member:	upper Hendry Ranch
Local section:	BadCr	Local bed:	4
Local order:	bottom to top

Lithology and environment

Environment:

terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Collection size:

297 specimens

Metadata

Database number:	16826
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, P. Holroyd	Enterer:	J. Alroy, P. Holroyd
Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-02-18 00:00:00	Last modified:	2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

2335.

M. C. Maas. 1985. Taphonomy of a late Eocene microvertebrate locality, Wind River Basin, Wyoming (U.S.A.). Palaeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 52(1-2):123-142 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1097		C. C. Black and J. F. Sutton. 1984. Paleocene and Eocene Rodents of North America. In R. M. Mengle (ed.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 9:67-84 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
87093		S. J. ElShafie. 2024. Body size estimation from isolated fossil bones reveals deep time evolutionary trends in North American lizards. PLoS ONE 19(1:e0296318):1-25 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
2180		L. Krishtalka and R. K. Stucky. 1983. Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 3. Marsupialia. Annals of Carnegie Museum 52(9):205-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
2241		J. A. Lillegraven, M. C. McKenna, and L. Kristalka. 1981. Evolutionary relationships of middle Eocene and younger species of Centetodon (Mammalia, Insectivora, Geolabididae) with a description of the dentition of Ankylodon (Adapisoricidae). University of Wyoming Publication 45:1-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2928		P. Robinson and D. G. Kron. 1998. Koniaryctes, a new genus of apternodontid insectivore from lower Eocene rocks of the Powder River basin, Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 32(2):187-190 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3312		J. E. Storer. 1993. Multituberculates of the Lac Pelletier Lower Fauna, Late Eocene (Duchesnean), of Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30:1613-1617 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]