UW locality V-60008: Early/Lower Eocene, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Reithroparamys ctenodactylops n. sp. Korth 1984
recombined as Tuscahomys ctenodactylops
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Sweetwater
Coordinates: 41.3° North, 108.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.0° North, 93.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Eocene
Age range of interval:55.80000 - 48.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wasatch
Stratigraphy comments: stated to be 1789 feet below the Luman Tongue
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:fluvial indet. Tectonic setting:intermontane basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:CM locality 4033
Database number:99475
Authorizer:K. Beard Enterer:K. Beard
Created:2010-11-12 03:15:05 Last modified:2010-11-11 10:15:05
Access level:the public Released:2010-11-12 03:15:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2105. 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]