Also known as Devil's Playground
Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.1° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 98.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Uinta Formation, Early/Lower Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)
• "lower within the Uinta B2 member, which is early Uintan (Ui2)"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1993-1995; reposited in the CM
Primary reference: R. H. Dunn and D. T. Rasmussen. 2009. Skeletal morphology of a new genus of Eocene insectivore (Mammalia, Erinaceomorpha) from Utah. Journal of Mammalogy 90(2):321-331 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93089: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Zionodon satanus n. gen. n. sp.
Zionodon satanus n. gen. n. sp. Dunn and Rasmussen 2009 elephant shrew |