Cathedral Bluffs Tongue (USGS D791) (Eocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

• NW 1/4 sec 24 T 12 N R 99 W
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Miacidae
Miacidae indet. Cope 1880 carnivoran
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse