Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 97.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Adobe Town, upper unit Member (Washakie Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. M. McCarroll, J. J. Flynn, and W. D. Turnbull. 1996. Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the Bridgerian-Uintan Washakie Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 25-39 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 16649: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
thought by McCarroll 1995 to be equivalent to either Uinta B1 or B2
Mammalia | |
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Epihippus gracilis Marsh 1871 horse | |
cf. Mesomeryx grangeri Peterson 1919 even-toed ungulate | |
Miacis sp. Cope 1872 placental | |
cf. Pantolestes sp. Cope 1872 placental | |
Pareumys grangeri Burke 1935 rodent | |
Paramys compressidens Peterson 1919 rodent
Leptotomus sp. Matthew 1910 rodent | |
Primates indet. Linnaeus 1758 primate | |
Ourayia uintensis Osborn 1895 tarsier |