Where: Colorado (40.3° N, 108.3° W: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 89.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ohio Creek Formation, Ti3 (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• "early Tiffanian (Ti3 lineage zone)"

Environment/lithology: channel lag; poorly lithified, pebbly sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by B. J. Burger, J. Eberle, M. Eberle, T. Culver, P. Monaco, J. Honey, K. Lloyd in 2005; reposited in the UCM

Collection methods: surface (float), anthill,

• University of Colorado Museum collection

•specimens are "from the surfaces of anthills composed of eroded grains from lag deposits of the major sandstone units"

Primary reference: B. J. Burger. 2007. A New Late Paleocene Vertebrate Fauna from the Ohio Creek Formation of Western Colorado. Mountain Geologist 44(3):141-150 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99821: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.11.2010

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