SC-133, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)
Fundort: | SC-133, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA), Wyoming, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taxon: | Cantius mckennai aus der Familie Notharctidae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle: |
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Macrofossils,mesofossils, "zone Wa-2 of Gingerich, 1983" the Bird Quarry lens "varies from 10-20 cm in thickness" and the Calcirudite Site is another lens that outcrops "some 10 m higher stratigraphically" and has "a maximum thickness in placs of 30-40 cm", All Bird Quarry fossils are from a lens "within a bed of gray mudstone" that "is a complex mass of brecciated, bioturbated micrite with some spar-filled dessication cracks and rare spar-filled gastropods... distinct [silt-filled] burrows and networks of plant rootlets" whereas "the calcirudite bed is composed of rounded calcium carbonate nodules equivalent in grain size to coarse sand" and "grades upward into a thin platy sandstone" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Geschätztes Alter der Fundstelle: |
zwischen 50,3 und 55,8 Millionen Jahre aus der Willwood Formation in Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Geologie, Sratigraphie | Ypresian / Wasatchian / Willwood | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Koordinaten: | 44° 45 ' 59 '' N, 109° 5 ' 0 '' W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
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LiteraturP. D. Gingerich, E. L. Simons 1977, Systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of early Eocene Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) in North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan. 24:22, p. 245 - 279 |
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