Finney Breaks (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Custer County, South Dakota (43.8° N, 102.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 93.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chadron Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• "Titanothere beds"
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments
• "river"
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1903
• Amherst College collection
Primary reference: F. B. Loomis. 1904. Two new river reptiles from the Titanothere beds. American Journal of Science 18:427-432 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99709: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Reptilia | |
"Crocodilus prenasalis" = Alligator prenasalis
"Crocodilus prenasalis" = Alligator prenasalis Loomis 1904 alligator | |