Washakie bathornithid: Uintan, Wyoming
collected by H. Stoll 1941
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Gruiformes
- Bathornithidae
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Eocathartes grallator n. gen., n. sp.
Wetmore 1944
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Emslie 1988 | ||||||
| recombined as Bathornis grallator | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Sweetwater |
| Coordinates: | 41.3° North, 108.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.0° North, 97.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Eocene |
| Key time interval: | Uintan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 46.20000 - 39.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Washakie | Member: | Adobe Town | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: age published as "late Eocene"; originally entered as Bridgerian to Uintan; updated to Uintan based on McCarroll et al. 1996 who correlate older "upper Washakie" collections with the middle and upper units of the Adobe Town Member (Twka2 and Twka3) |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Lithology description: The specimen was embedded in a relatively fine sandstone that was fairly soft in character, in the upper part of the Washakie formation of the Upper Eocene. The skeleton apparently had been overturned in some way before becoming finally embedded prior to fossilization, since the under sides of several bones were mechanically fractured. | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | H. Stoll | Collection dates: | August 1941 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 13323 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Hunter | Enterer: | J. Hunter |
| Modifier: | P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-02-20 14:44:44 | Last modified: | 2024-03-28 02:16:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-02-20 14:44:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6042. | A. Wetmore. 1944. A new terrestrial vulture from the Upper Eocene deposits of Wyoming. Annals of Carnegie Museum 30:57-69 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/P. Holroyd] |
Secondary references:
| 4416 | 5% 13020 | S. D. Emslie. 1988. An early condor-like vulture from North America. The Auk 105(3):529-535 [J. Hunter/J. Hunter/J. Hunter] |