UW locality V-60008 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as CM locality 4033

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.3° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 93.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• stated to be 1789 feet below the Luman Tongue

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: W. W. Korth. 1984. Earliest Tertiary evolution and radiation of rodents in North America. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 24:1-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99475: authorized by K. Christopher Beard, entered by K. Christopher Beard on 12.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
"Reithroparamys ctenodactylops n. sp." = Tuscahomys ctenodactylops
"Reithroparamys ctenodactylops n. sp." = Tuscahomys ctenodactylops Korth 1984 rodent