Also known as Spanish Fork Canyon
Where: Utah County, Utah (39.9° N, 111.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 99.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bridgerian to Bridgerian (50.3 - 40.4 Ma)
• "Middle to Late Eocene" (almost certainly meaning Bridgerian to Uintan) and possibly in the Green River Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,
• found "twelve feet from the surface" in a slab "quarried by the Western Lithographic Stone Company"
Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1909. A fossil gar-pike from Utah. Science 29:796 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 106376: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
"Lepisosteus simplex" = Lepidosteus simplex
"Lepisosteus simplex" = Lepidosteus simplex Leidy 1873 gar |