Northwest of Tucker: Bridgerian - Uintan, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus simplex
(Leidy 1873)
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original and current combination Lepidosteus simplex | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Utah |
Coordinates: | 39.9° North, 111.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.3° North, 99.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Key time interval: | Bridgerian - Uintan | ||
Age range of interval: | 50.50000 - 39.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "Middle to Late Eocene" (almost certainly meaning Bridgerian to Uintan) and possibly in the Green River Formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
Lithology description: "a block of limestone" | |
Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,adpression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collection method comments: found "twelve feet from the surface" in a slab "quarried by the Western Lithographic Stone Company" |
Metadata
Also known as: | Spanish Fork Canyon | ||
Database number: | 106376 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-03-12 10:49:42 | Last modified: | 2011-03-11 17:49:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-03-12 10:49:42 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
35505. | T. D. A. Cockerell. 1909. A fossil gar-pike from Utah. Science 29:796 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |