UCMP V70214 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 92.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Wa3 mammal zone, Main Body Member (Wasatch Formation), Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported and sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve

Primary reference: D. M. Boyer, S. A. Maiolino, P. A. Holroyd, P. E. Morse, and J. I. Bloch. 2018. Oldest evidence for grooming claws in euprimates. Journal of Human Evolution 122:1-22 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226069: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 14.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Glyptosaurinae indet. Marsh 1872 squamates
cf. Xestops sp. Cope 1873 squamates
Mammalia
 Primates - Omomyidae
Tetonius matthewi Bown and Rose 1987 tarsier