The Cuchara Formation is a geologic formation in Colorado. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ypresian stage of the Eocene period, or Wasatchian in the NALMA classification.Cuchara Formation at Fossilworks.org
Fossil content The following fossils have been reported from the formation:
Mammals Ferae Didymictis sp.Robinson, 1963 Perissodactyla Hyracotherium sp. Placentalia Phenacodus intermedius
Wasatchian correlations + Wasatchian correlations in North America Formation 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 RiverUintaPiceanceColorado PlateauWind RiverGreen RiverBighorn 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 Copelemur Coryphodon Diacodexis Homogalax Oxyaena Paramys Primates Birds Reptiles Fish Insects Flora Environments Alluvial-fluvio-lacustrine Fluvial Fluvial Fluvio-lacustrine Fluvial Lacustrine Fluvio-lacustrine Deltaic-paludal Shallow marine Fluvial Shallow marine Fluvial Fluvial Volcanic Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No
See also List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Colorado Paleontology in Colorado
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