Where: Washakie County County, Wyoming (44.1° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 91.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Wa-0 mammal zone, Willwood Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• reddish brown mudstone capping purple bed above WW-79, thus probably between Purples 1 and 2,

•but possibly between Purples 2 and 3.

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"lithified, paleosol/pedogenic, muddy

Primary reference: K. D. Rose, A. E. Chew, R. H. Dunn, M. J. Kraus, H. C. Fricke and S. P. Zack. 2012. Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36:1-122 [J. Bloch/J. Bloch]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 154272: authorized by Jonathan Bloch, entered by Jonathan Bloch on 06.02.2014

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