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
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. C. Murphey and T. S. Kelly. 2017. Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 2: Apatotheria, Lipotyphla, Carnivoramorpha, Condylartha, Dinocerata, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla. Palaeontologia Electronica 20.2.29A [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186969: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 08.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Nyctitherium gunnelli n. sp.
Nyctitherium gunnelli n. sp. Murphey and Kelly 2017 placental |