Turtle Blues/Oakie Trail Quarry (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Natrona County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 107.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 90.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lost Cabin Member (Wind River Formation), Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: W. W. Korth. 1982. Revision of the Wind River Faunas, Early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 2. Geologic Setting. Annals of Carnegie Museum 51(4):57-78 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 16062: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• secs 1, 2, 11 T39N R89W; this is just east of the county line
very low within mbr.
one quarry with two names, NOT a composite list
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Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp.
Coryphodon sp. Owen 1845 pantodont
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus sp.
Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870 condylarth
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Lambdotherium sp.
Lambdotherium sp. Cope 1880 brontothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet.
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
 Carnivora - Miacidae
Miacidae indet.
Miacidae indet. Cope 1880 carnivoran