Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.3° N, 108.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 97.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Adobe Town Member (Washakie Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 40.4 Ma)
• age published as "late Eocene"; originally entered as Bridgerian to Uintan; updated to Uintan based on McCarroll et al. 1996 who correlate older "upper Washakie" collections with the middle and upper units of the Adobe Town Member (Twka2 and Twka3)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone
•the upper part of the Washakie formation of the Upper Eocene. The skeleton apparently had been overturned in some way before becoming finally embedded prior to fossilization, since the under sides of several
•bones were mechanically fractured.
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by H. Stoll in 1941
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: A. Wetmore. 1944. A new terrestrial vulture from the Upper Eocene deposits of Wyoming. Annals of Carnegie Museum 30:57-69 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13323: authorized by John Hunter, entered by John Hunter on 20.02.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
"Eocathartes grallator n. gen. n. sp." = Neocathartes grallator
"Eocathartes grallator n. gen. n. sp." = Neocathartes grallator Wetmore 1944 bird |