Spring City (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Sanpete County, Utah (39.5° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 96.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Green River Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• single specimen

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; ooidal limestone

• "oolitic" limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: M. E. Nelson, J. H. Madsen, Jr., and W. L. Stokes. 1980. A titanothere from the Green River Formation, central Utah; Teleodus uintensis (Perissodactyla; Brontotheriidae). Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 18(2):127-134 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 16859: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Duchesneodus uintensis Peterson 1931 brontothere