Where: Washakie County, Wyoming (44.1° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 90.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 27349: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.12.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Mammalia | |
Copecion davisi Gingerich 1989 condylarth |