Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (42.1° N, 109.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• age unclear, presumably Holocene based on presence of Bison antiquus along with "similar points" to those found at the Scottsbluff Bison Quarry
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by O. M. Finley, E. B. Howard, H. Cook in 1940, 1941; reposited in the UNSM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• discovered by Finley in 1940, collected by Howard and Cook, then collected by "a joint expedition of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Nebraska" in 1941
Primary reference: C. B. Schultz. 1943. Some artifact sites of early man in the Great Plains and adjacent areas. American Antiquity 8(3):242-249 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 93248: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
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