Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 109.6° W: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 95.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bridger Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• "in the lower part of Bridger A"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by F. B. Kistner; reposited in the UW
Primary reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1979. Phylogeny of middle Eocene Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) in North America: Smilodectes and Notharctus. Journal of Paleontology 53(1):153-163 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87311: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Smilodectes mcgrewi n. sp.
Smilodectes mcgrewi n. sp. Gingerich 1979 primate |