Forbidden City (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as East Grizzly Buttes; The Woodburne Locality

Where: Uinta County, Wyoming (41.3° N, 110.2° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 96.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blacks Fork Member (Bridger Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; sandstone

• "sandy crevasse splay, adjacent to the channel belt"
• "sandstone... structureless, upward-coarsening... non-erosional, gradational contact with the underlying claystone"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: B. E. Gulas-Wroblewski and A. F.-J. Wroblewski. 2003. A crown-group galliform bird from the Middle Eocene Bridger Formation of Wyoming. Palaeontology 46(6):1269-1280 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70145: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Aves
 Galliformes -
Amitabha urbsinterdictensis n. gen. n. sp.
Amitabha urbsinterdictensis n. gen. n. sp. Gulas-Wroblewski and Wroblewski 2003 fowl