Fross Quarry/White Trash Quarry (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 48.0° N, 91.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lysite Member (Wind River Formation), Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: W. W. Korth. 1982. Revision of the Wind River Faunas, Early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 2. Geologic Setting. Annals of Carnegie Museum 51(4):57-78 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 15937: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• just over a mile to the west of the county line
list of three species from Fross Quarry is given by Keefer 1965 (repeated from Tourtelot 1953)
2 - 4 mi west of Badwater localities
composite list
Stucky 1984: record of "Lambdotherium sp." is an indeterminate equid
list of three species from Fross Quarry is given by Keefer 1965 (repeated from Tourtelot 1953)
2 - 4 mi west of Badwater localities
composite list
Stucky 1984: record of "Lambdotherium sp." is an indeterminate equid
Show authors, comments, and common names
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Macrocranion nitens Matthew 1918 elephant shrew | |
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Hyopsodus sp.2 Leidy 1870 condylarth I assume his collection is different from Korth's, who omits the genus
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? Viverravus sp. Marsh 1872 placental | |
"Hyracotherium cf. index" = Minippus index
"Hyracotherium cf. index" = Minippus index Cope 1873 horse listed by Keefer as "H. cf. borealis" and "H. cf. craspedotum"
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Heptodon sp. Cope 1882 odd-toed ungulate | |
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Bunophorus etsagicus Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate | |
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Knightomys depressus Loomis 1907 rodent | |
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Paramys copei Loomis 1907 rodent | |
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Absarokius abbotti Loomis 1906 tarsier | |
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Microsyops scottianus Cope 1881 primate
Microsyops latidens Cope 1882 primate | |