One Mile a Little Southeast of Gardner Butte (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Huerfano County, Colorado (37.8° N, 105.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 91.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Huerfano Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. Robinson. 1966. Fossil Mammalia of the Huerfano Formation, Eocene, of Colorado. Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 21:1-95 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 16298: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• probably sec 20 T26S R69W
"undoubtedly the lowest upper faunal zone locality in Huerfano Park" = below University of Michigan locality and above Huerfano VII
"undoubtedly the lowest upper faunal zone locality in Huerfano Park" = below University of Michigan locality and above Huerfano VII
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Palaeosyops fontinalis Cope 1873 brontothere | |