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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Botauroides parvus n. gen. n. sp.
Botauroides parvus n. gen. n. sp. Shufeldt 1915 heron |