Turtle-lake Beds (UW V-79006) (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 16443: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• underlies the Blue Point Marker
 Animalia -
Animalia indet.2
some weird misentry... was Trematonotus angustatus
Mammalia
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus cf. paulus Leidy 1870 condylarth
 Perissodactyla -
Tapiroidea indet. Gill 1872 odd-toed ungulate
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Pseudotomus robustus1 Marsh 1872 rodent
Quadratomus grossus1 Korth 1985 rodent
 Primates - Notharctidae
Notharctus sp. Leidy 1870 primate