Shirley Basin Wagon Bed (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 93.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Wagon Bed Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: E. N. Harshman. 1972. Geology and uranium deposits, Shirley Basin area, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 745:1-82 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 16412: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

• could be in any of four adjacent counties and exact locality is not given; Carbon County includes much of the basin according to the USGS National Atlas
fauna is said by Krishtalka et al. 1987 to "suggest" the Bridgerian
Mammalia
 Primates - Notharctidae
Notharctus sp. Leidy 1870 primate