BR-2: Wasatchian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Copecion davisi Gingerich 1989
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Washakie
Coordinates: 44.1° North, 107.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.9° North, 90.7° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Eocene
*Local age/stage:Early/Lower Wasatchian
Key time interval:Wasatchian
Age range of interval:54.90000 - 50.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Willwood
Local section:Clark Local bed:1520 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red mudstone
Lithology description: "red and orange mudstones"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:27349
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-12-03 13:05:24 Last modified:2005-12-10 19:32:33
Access level:the public Released:2002-12-03 13:05:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]