Also known as Florissant

Where: Teller County, Colorado (38.9° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 97.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Florissant Formation, Late/Upper Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• "upper Eocene (Chadronian)" and in the "lower mudstone unit... at the 29-meter level" of Evanoff et al. 2001

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the UCM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

• material was "recovered through dry-screening" and reposited at UCM in collections owned by the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

•other mammals surely present but not discussed

Primary reference: K. J. Lloyd and J. J. Eberle. 2008. A new talpid from the late Eocene of North America. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(3):539-543 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85117: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 29.11.2008, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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