SC-133, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)


Fundort: SC-133, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA), Wyoming, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)
Taxon: Microsyops speirianus aus der Familie Microsyopidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
9 Fossilien gefunden:
Bezeichng. Anzahl Seite Körpert./Zahn Abkürzg.
487unterer Molar(m1)
1unterer Molar(m1)
25unterer Molar(m1)
14unterer Molar(m1)
15oberer Prämolar(P4)
25oberer Molar(M1)
25oberer Molar(M2)
21unterer Prämolar(p4)
30unterer Molar(m2)
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

Literatur

P. D. Gingerich 1987, Early Eocene bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) and other vertebrates in freshwater limestones of the Willlwood Formation, Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan. 27:11, p. 275 - 320

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