WU-212 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.2° N, 109.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 98.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Myton Member (Uinta Formation), Late/Upper Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)

• "stratigraphically high in the Uinta C member" (i.e., upper Myton Member)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2001

• Washington University collection

Primary reference: R. H. Dunn and D. T. Rasmussen. 2007. Skeletal morphology and locomotor behavior of Pseudotomus eugenei (Rodentia, Paramyinae) from the Uinta Formation, Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):987-1006 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 109167: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.05.2011

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Pseudotomus eugenei Burke 1935 rodent