Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 95.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Laney Member (Green River Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• LaClede Bed
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•Laney member Ar dated to ~49Ma (see Smith and Carroll 2015)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. W. Roehler. 1991. Godiva Rim Member; a new stratigraphic unit of the Green River Formation in Southwest Wyoming and Northwest Colorado. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1506-C:C1-C17 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 16621: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Nyctitherium serotinum Marsh 1872 placental | |
Omomys sp. Leidy 1869 tarsier |