Willow Creek (Uinta A) (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.2° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 98.9° W)
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When: Wagonhound Member (Uinta Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: O. A. Peterson. 1934. New Titanotheres From the Uinta Eocene in Utah. Annals of Carnegie Museum 22(8):351-361 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 16658: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998
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"Sthenodectes priscus n. sp." = Sthenodectes incisivum
"Sthenodectes priscus n. sp." = Sthenodectes incisivum Douglass 1909 brontothere only specimen from Uinta A listed by Kay 1934; this is Uinta A sensu stricto according to Prothero and Swisher 1992, but specimen is from basal part of Willow Creek section that is of reversed polarity and probably correlative with B1 in the Wagonhound Creek section: Prothero 1996a; specimen but not species is mentioned by Mader 1989
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