UMNH VP 2210 Sweetwater Creek (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as UMNH IP233, UMNH PB 113

Where: Garfield County, Utah (37.8° N, 112.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 96.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Claron Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

• pasted variegated mudstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: J. G. Eaton, W. W. Korth, and D. B. Brinkman. 2018. Vertebrate fossils from the Claron Formation, Sweetwater Creek area, Garfield County, Utah, U.S.A. Rocky Mountain Geology 53(2):113-127 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 198250: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 11.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• eggshell, charophytes, ostracods
 Vertebrata -
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail