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 | |
Glyptosaurinae indet. Marsh 1872 squamates
cf. Xestops sp. Cope 1873 squamates | |
Mammalia | |
Tetonius matthewi Bown and Rose 1987 tarsier |