SC-345: Wasatchian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Copecion davisi
Gingerich 1989
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Leidyosuchus sp.
Lambe 1907
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= Crocodylia indet.
Owen 1842
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus sp.
Agassiz 1843
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Urocoptidae
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Holospira sp.
Martens 1860
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Park |
| Coordinates: | 44.8° North, 109.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.8° North, 92.7° 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
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red mudstone |
| Lithology description: "bright double [mudstone] red beds" | |
| 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 |
| Museum repositories: | UMMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 27353 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-12-03 13:23:39 | Last modified: | 2005-12-10 19:32:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-12-03 13:23:39 |
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 19636 | J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |