type section of the Tepee Trail Formation: Early/Lower Uintan, Wyoming
collected by Malcolm C. McKenna
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Fremont |
| Coordinates: | 43.7° North, 109.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.5° North, 97.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Uintan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 46.20000 - 39.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Teepee Trail | Member: | Unit 24 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,green lithified tuff |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Geology comments: Apparently described in Love 1939: "Love (1939, p. 75) described the lithology of unit 24 as:“Tuff, hard, fine-grained, olive drab, andesitic, ledge-forming. Bone bed A .. . . Many bone and tooth fragments associated with leaf im- prints.” | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | Malcolm C. McKenna |
Metadata
| Database number: | 175570 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-12-14 12:57:52 | Last modified: | 2015-12-14 13:07:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-12-14 12:57:52 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2366. | B. J. MacFadden. 1980. Eocene perissodactyls from the type section of the Tepee Trail Formation of northwestern Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 18(2):135-143 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 2541 | M. C. McKenna and J. D. Love. 1972. High-level Strata Containing Early Miocene Mammals on the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming. American Museum Novitates 2490:1-31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 2950 | K. D. Rose. 1978. A new Paleocene epoicotheriid (Mammalia), with comments on the Palaeanodonta. Journal of Paleontology 52(3):658-674 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |