Above Alheit Pocket (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Moffat County, Colorado (40.6° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 91.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: R. V. Hill, J. G. Honey, and M. A. O'Leary. 2000. New fossils from the early Eocene Four Mile Area and improved relative dating of vertebrate localities. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3):48A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 15429: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• 509 m level in local section
exact locality name is not given by the authors
unclassified
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Mammalia
 Ferae - Viverravidae
Didymictis protenus Cope 1874 placental
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"? Hyracotherium grangeri" = Sifrhippus grangeri
"? Hyracotherium grangeri" = Sifrhippus grangeri Gingerich 1989 horse
 Primates - Notharctidae
Cantius ralstoni Matthew 1915 primate
 Primates - Omomyidae
Tetonius mckennai Bown and Rose 1987 tarsier