West Side of Shotgun Butte (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 48.5° N, 89.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Shotgun Member (Fort Union Formation), Clarkforkian (56.8 - 55.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: C. L. Gazin. 1971. Paleocene primates from the Shotgun Member of the Fort Union Formation in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 84(3):13-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details
PaleoDB collection 15218: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
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Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Phenacodus sp. Cope 1873 condylarth
Ectocion osbornianus Cope 1882 condylarth | |
Plesiadapis cf. cookei Jepsen 1930 primate |