Also known as SDSNH locality 5844 Roll the Bones
Where: Uinta County, Wyoming (41.1° N, 110.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 99.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ui1a zone, Turtle Bluff Member (Bridger Formation), Early/Lower Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)
• ~105 meters from base of Turtle Bluff Member in type section; dates from Murphey et al. 2018
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. C. Murphey, T. S. Kelly, K. R. Chamberlain, K. Tsukui, and W. C. Clyde. 2018. Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 3: Marsupialia and a reevaluation of the Bridgerian-Uintan North American Land Mammal Age transition. Palaeontologia Electronica 21.2.25A:1-52 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186968: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 08.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Epihippus cf. gracilis Marsh 1871 horse | |
Wickia cf. brevirhinus Mihlbachler 2008 brontothere | |
Triplopus cf. obliquidens Scott and Osborn 1887 odd-toed ungulate | |
Nyctitherium velox Marsh 1872 placental | |
Peradectes californicus Stock 1936 marsupial | |
Herpetotherium knighti McGrew et al. 1959 marsupial | |
Uintatherium anceps Marsh 1871 uintathere |