title: Wasatchian
text: # Wasatchian
  
  The Wasatchian North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), typically set from 55,400,000 to 50,300,000 years BP lasting 5.1 million years.
  
  It is usually considered to be within the Eocene, more specifically the Early Eocene.
  
  The Wasatchian is preceded by the Clarkforkian and followed by the Bridgerian NALMA stages.
  
  ## Definition
  
  The age is named after the Wasatch Formation, a highly fossiliferous stratigraphic unit stretching across six of the United States from Idaho and Montana in the north through Utah and Wyoming to Colorado and New Mexico in the south.
  
  ## Substages
  
  The Wasatchian is considered to contain the following substages:
  
  * Sandcouleean: shares lower boundary with the beginning of the Wasatchian age and shares upper boundary with the base of the Graybullian.
  * Graybullian: shares lower boundary with the end of the Sandcouleean subage and upper boundary with the base of the Lysitean.
  * Lysitean: shares lower boundary with the end of the Graybullian subage and upper boundary with the base of the Lostcabinian.
  * Lostcabinian: shares lower boundary with the end of the Lysitean subage and upper boundary with the beginning of the Bridgerian.
  
  ## Wasatchian correlations
  
  Wasatchian correlations in North America :
  
  | Formation | Wasatch | DeBeque | Claron | Indian Meadows | Pass Peak | Tatman | Willwood | Golden Valley | Coldwater | Allenby | Kamloops | Ootsa Lake | Margaret | Nanjemoy | Hatchetigbee | Tetas de Cabra | Hannold Hill | Coalmont | Cuchara | Galisteo | San Jose | Ypresian (IUCS) • Itaboraian (SALMA) Bumbanian (ALMA) • Mangaorapan (NZ) |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Basin | Powder River Uinta Piceance Colorado Plateau Wind River Green River Bighorn | Piceance | Colorado Plateau | Wind River | Green River | Bighorn | Bighorn | Williston | Okanagan | Princeton | Buck Creek | Nechako | Sverdrup | Potomac | GoM | Laguna Salada | Rio Grande | North Park | Raton | Galisteo | San Juan | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Country | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | Canada | Canada | Canada | Canada | Canada | United States | United States | Mexico | United States | United States | United States | United States | United States | | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Copelemur | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Coryphodon | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Diacodexis | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Homogalax | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Oxyaena | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Paramys | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Primates | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Birds | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Reptiles | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Fish | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Insects | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Flora | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wasatchian (North America) |
  | Environments | Alluvial-fluvio-lacustrine | Fluvial | | | | Fluvial | Fluvio-lacustrine | Fluvial | Lacustrine | Lacustrine | Fluvio-lacustrine | Fluvio-lacustrine | Deltaic-paludal | Shallow marine | Shallow marine | Fluvial | Shallow marine | Fluvial | | Fluvial | Fluvial | Wasatchian volcanoclastics Wasatchian fauna Wasatchian flora |
  | Volcanic | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Wasatchian volcanoclastics Wasatchian fauna Wasatchian flora |
  