West of Rock Springs (Brown) (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 92.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Wasatch Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: C. L. Gazin. 1965. Early Eocene mammalian faunas and their environment in the vicinity of the Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 19:171-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 15890: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• collection made by R.W. Brown in 1941
all West of Rock Springs localities are at least 10 miles west of the main Bridger Formation localities
all West of Rock Springs localities are at least 10 miles west of the main Bridger Formation localities
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| Mammalia | |
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Meniscotherium chamense Cope 1874 condylarth | |
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Coryphodon sp. Owen 1845 pantodont | |