Where: Lincoln County, Wyoming (42.4° N, 110.6° W: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 98.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fossil Butte Member (Green River Formation), Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
• A nearly complete fish.
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Cope in 1877; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. Q. Li, L. Grande, and M. V. H. Wilson. 1997. The species of †Phareodus (Teleostei: Osteoglossidae) from the Eocene of North America and their phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3):487-505 [S. Peters/S. McMullen/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 134737: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 15.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Phareodus testis Cope 1877 arowana |