Where: Lincoln County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 110.7° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 94.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fossil Butte Member (Green River Formation), Lostcabinian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• from upper Fossil Butte Member; Lostcabinian age based on stratigraphic work summarized in Buchheim et al. 2015. Stratigraphy and interbasinal correlations between Fossil and the Green River Basin, Wyoming. DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9906-5_6
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, soft parts
Reposited in the FMNH
Primary reference: I. Weidig. 2010. New Birds from the Lower Eocene Green River Formation, North America. Records of the Australian Museum 62:29-44 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187019: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 11.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Actinopteri | |
Masillosteus janeae n. sp., Lepisosteus bemisi n. sp.
Masillosteus janeae n. sp. Grande 2010 gar
Lepisosteus bemisi n. sp. Grande 2010 gar | |
| Reptilia | |
Gallinuloides wyomingensis n. gen. n. sp.
Gallinuloides wyomingensis n. gen. n. sp. Eastman 1900 fowl holotype inferred to be from this locality by Grande 1980
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