Washakie bathornithid (Eocene of the United States)

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 specimen was embedded in a relatively fine sandstone that was fairly soft in character, in

•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

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Gruiformes - Bathornithidae
"Eocathartes grallator n. gen. n. sp." = Neocathartes grallator
"Eocathartes grallator n. gen. n. sp." = Neocathartes grallator Wetmore 1944 bird