Coyote Basin (Uinta B) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.2° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 98.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Wagonhound Member (Uinta Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)

• "Uintah"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: W. H. Wheeler. 1961. Revision of the Uintatheres. Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 14:1-93 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 16548: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• some or all of this material may be from Wagonhound Canyon (see); it appears to be restricted to Uinta B2 based on Riggs 1912, Prothero 1996a
Mammalia
 Taeniodonta - Stylinodontidae
Stylinodon mirus3 Marsh 1874 taeniodont
Coyote Basin, Uintah Co.; this is probably the material of "Stylinodon" from the "Green clays" in Kennedy's Basin mentioned by Riggs 1912; listed as "B2" by Prothero 1996a
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
"Dolichorhinus fluminalis n. sp." = Sphenocoelus intermedius2
"Dolichorhinus fluminalis n. sp." = Sphenocoelus intermedius2 Osborn 1908 brontothere
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
"Grangeria anarsius" = Eomoropus anarsius1
"Grangeria anarsius" = Eomoropus anarsius1 Gazin 1956 chalicothere
Uinta B, Coyote Basin, Uintah Co. DUPLICATE REF 2308 or 2309
 Dinocerata - Uintatheriidae
Eobasileus cornutus Cope 1872 uintathere
FMNH specimen from "Uinta B... Coyote Basin"; listed as "B2" by Prothero 1996a