Northwest of Tucker: Bridgerian - Uintan, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus simplex (Leidy 1873)
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]