Also known as SC-289
Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.8° N, 109.1° W: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 90.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)
• "some 115 m higher stratigraphically" than SC-29
•the coquina is "a 10 cm thick carbonate-cemented bed"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the UMMP
Primary reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1987. Early Eocene bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) and other vertebrates in freshwater limestones of the Willlwood Formation, Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(11):275-320 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 15217: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Will Clyde
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Mammalia | |
Didymictis sp. Cope 1875 placental | |
Ectocion sp. Cope 1882 condylarth | |
Reptilia | |
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