Tapiroid Tooth Locality (Eocene to of the United States)

Where: Teton County, Wyoming (43.9° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 95.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aycross Formation, Wasatchian to Wasatchian (55.8 - 46.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. C. McKenna. 1972. Vertebrate paleontology of the Togwotee Pass area, northwestern Wyoming. In R. M. West (ed.), Field Conference on Tertiary Biostratigraphy of Southern and Western Wyoming, August 5-10, 1972 80-101 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 16434: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• "500 feet above base of Rohrer's Twc, in association with K-Ar sample whose date is not yet released. Late Wasatchian or early Bridgerian"
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla -
Tapiroidea indet. Gill 1872 odd-toed ungulate
"either Heptodon posticus... or Helaletes intermedius"