Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 95.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Bridgerian NALMA zone, Black Fork Member (Bridger Formation), Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)
• Based on Joyce and Lyson 2015
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Prof. Hayden's exploration in 1870; reposited in the UNSM
Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1873. Part I. Contributions to the extinct vertebrate fauna of the western territories. In F. V. Hayden (ed.), Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 1:1-358 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 193357: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 14.05.2018, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Pimelodus antiquus n. sp.2
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Lepidosteus atrox n. sp.2
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Amia (Protamia) media n. sp.2
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Reptilia | |
Baena arenosa n. gen. n. sp.1
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