Also known as Juncitarsus type
Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.2° N, 109.7° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 98.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Bridger Formation, Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)
• very low in formation; earliest middle Eocene
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; yellow siliciclastic sediments and lithified, gray, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. L. Gazin, F. L. Pearce & G. F. Sternberg in 1946-1947; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: S. L. Olson and A. Feduccia. 1980. Relationships and evolution of flamingos (Aves: Phoenicopteridae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 316:1-73 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 97759: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 27.08.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano and Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Juncitarsus gracillimus n. gen. n. sp.
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