Spanish John's Meadow (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Spanish John Meadow

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (42.1° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 96.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bridger Formation, Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. Lamothe

Primary reference: R. W. Shufeldt. 1915. Fossil birds in the Marsh Collection of Yale University. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 19:1-110 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81457: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 24.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Botauroides parvus n. gen. n. sp.
Botauroides parvus n. gen. n. sp. Shufeldt 1915 heron