Finney Quarry (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Lincoln County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 94.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fossil Butte Member (Green River Formation), Lostcabinian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

• Sandwich Beds in the basal part of the member, below the 18 Inch Layer

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; limestone

• none, but clearly limestone based on illustrated matrix

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Bonnie Finney in 2003; reposited in the ROM

Primary reference: N. B. Simmons, K. L. Seymour, J. Habersetzer and G. F. Gunnell. 2008. Primitive Early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocation. Nature 451:818-821 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78672: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 13.02.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• a standard Green River fauna is present based on the Finney web site but not mentioned in the paper
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Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Onychonycteridae
Onychonycteris finneyi n. gen. n. sp.
Onychonycteris finneyi n. gen. n. sp. Simmons et al. 2008 bat