Where: Moffat County, Colorado (40.6° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 94.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cathedral Bluffs Tongue Member (Wasatch Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• lower part of tongue/member
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: H. W. Roehler. 1987. Geological investigations of the Vermillion Creek coal bed in the Eocene Niland Tongue of the Wasatch Formation, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1314-C:25-45 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 16199: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Miacidae indet. Cope 1880 carnivoran | |
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse |