Blue Point Marker (UW V-80002) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 48.1° N, 94.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UW

Primary reference: J. G. Eaton. 1982. Paleontology and correlation of Eocene volcanic rocks in the Carter Mountain area, Park County, southeastern Absaroka Range, Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 21(2):153-194 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 16140: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• overlies the "turtle-lake beds"
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Orohippus sp. Marsh 1872 horse
"intermediate between O. pumilus and O. major"
 Life -
Scenopagus curtidens Matthew 1909