Indian Meadows Formation

Short description: Geologic formation in Wyoming, United States

Indian Meadows Formation
Stratigraphic range: Ypresian (Wasatchian)
~55–50 Ma

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Type| Formation
Location
Coordinates|  [ ⚑ ] : 43°12′N 108°12′W﻿ / ﻿43.2°N 108.2°W﻿ / 43.2; -108.2
Paleocoordinates|  [ ⚑ ] 48°00′N 91°24′W﻿ / ﻿48.0°N 91.4°W﻿ / 48.0; -91.4
Region|  Wyoming
Country|  United States
Extent| Wind River Basin
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The Indian Meadows Formation is a Wasatchian geologic formation in Wyoming. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ypresian stage of the Eocene period.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Fossil content
* 1.1 Mammals
* 2 Wasatchian correlations
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 4.1 Bibliography

## Fossil content

The following fossils have been reported from the formation:[1][2][3]

### Mammals

Primates

* Absarokius abbotti
* Cantius sp.

Artiodactyls

* Diacodexis metsiacus
* Artiodactyla indet.

Cimolesta

* Esthonyx sp.

Eutheria

* Chriacus gallinae

Ferae

* Didymictis sp.

Glires

* Paramys copei
* P. excavatus

Macroscelidea

* Haplomylus speirianus

Multituberculata

* Parectypodus lunatus

Pantodonta

* Coryphodon sp.

Perissodactyls

* Homogalax protapirinus
* Homogalax sp.
* Equidae indet.

Placentalia

* Hyopsodus loomisi
* Phenacodus vortmani
* Ectocion cf. osbornianus
* Hyopsodus sp.
* Phenacodus sp.

Theriiformes

* Oxyaenidae indet.

## Wasatchian correlations

Wasatchian correlations in North America Basin | Powder River
Uinta
Piceance
Colorado Plateau
Wind River
Green River
Bighorn | Piceance

Colorado Plateau

Wind River

Green River

Bighorn | Williston | Okanagan | Princeton | Buck Creek | Nechako | Sverdrup | Potomac | GoM | Laguna Salada | Rio Grande | North Park | Raton | Galisteo | San Juan |

Indian Meadows Formation is located in North America

Indian Meadows Formation (North America)

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Country |  United States |  Canada |  United States |  Mexico |  United States
Copelemur | 14px | 14px |  |  |  |  | 14px |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 14px
Coryphodon | 14px | 14px |  | 14px |  |  | 14px | 14px |  |  |  |  | 14px |  | 14px |  | 14px |  |  | 14px | 14px
Diacodexis | 14px | 14px |  |  | 14px |  | 14px | 14px |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 14px |  |  |  |  | 14px
Homogalax | 14px | 14px |  | 14px |  |  | 14px | 14px |  |  |  |  |  | 14px |  |  |  |  |  | 14px |
Oxyaena | 14px | 14px |  |  |  |  | 14px |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 14px |  |  |  |  | 14px
Paramys | 14px | 14px |  | 14px | 14px |  | 14px | 14px |  |  |  |  | 14px |  |  |  | 14px |  |  |  | 14px
Primates | 10px |  |  | 10px |  |  | 10px |  |  |  |  |  | 10px |  |  |  | 10px |  |  | 10px | 10px
Birds | 10px |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 10px | 10px |  |  | 10px | 10px |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Reptiles | 10px |  | 10px |  |  |  |  | 10px |  |  |  |  | 10px | 10px |  | 10px |  |  |  |  | 10px
Fish | 10px |  | 10px |  |  |  |  | 10px |  | 10px |  |  | 10px | 10px |  | 10px |  |  |  |  |
Insects |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 10px | 10px | 10px | 10px | 10px |  |  |  |  |  | 10px |  |  |
Flora | 10px |  |  |  |  | 10px | 10px | 10px | 10px | 10px |  |  |  | 10px |  | 10px |  | 10px |  |  |
Environments | Alluvial-fluvio-lacustrine | Fluvial |  |  |  | Fluvial | Fluvio-lacustrine | Fluvial | Lacustrine | Fluvio-lacustrine | Deltaic-paludal | Shallow marine | Fluvial | Shallow marine | Fluvial |  | Fluvial |

Wasatchian volcanoclastics

8px Wasatchian fauna

Wasatchian flora

Volcanic | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No

## See also

* List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Wyoming
* Paleontology in Wyoming

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Indian Meadows Formation at Fossilworks.org
2. ↑ Winterfeld & Conard, 1983
3. ↑ Keefer & Troyer, 1964

### Bibliography

* Winterfeld, G. F., and J. B. Conard. 1983. Laramide tectonics and deposition, Washakie Range and northwestern Wind River Basin, Wyoming, 137–148. J. D. Lowell and R. Gries (eds.), Rocky Mountain foreland basin and uplifts.
* Keefer, W. R., and M. L. Troyer. 1964. Geology of the Shotgun Butte area, Fremont County, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1157\. 1–123.

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