Unio Cliff (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as TMM 41784

Where: Presidio County, Texas (29.9° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 94.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Devil's Graveyard Formation, Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: E. P. Gustafson. 1986. Carnivorous mammals of the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of Trans-Pecos Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 33:1-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 16638: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.06.1997

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Taxonomic list

• 46.3 m above base of Fm.
"one of the Titanothere Channels," and therefore probably in Presidio County
there appears to be only one specimen
overlies Whistler Squat and underlies Cotter and Skyline Channels
Mammalia
 Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Hessolestes sp. Peterson 1931 condylarth