ammonites
Saddle (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Discovery

Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (42.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 48.1° N, 88.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

• new material of West 1972 part of an "intensively screen-washed" collection made in 1969 by F. S. Szalay

Primary reference: C. L. Gazin. 1956. Palaeocene mammalian faunas of the Bison Basin in south-central Wyoming. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 131(6):1-57 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14989: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Matt Carrano

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