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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Formation
- Florissant
- Geologic interval
- Chadronian
- Age
- 37–33.9 Ma
- Depositional environment
- fluvial indet.
- Recorded occurrences
- 6
possibly quite close to the town of Florissant (basis of coordinate), because the mammal bed is stratigraphically between samples 1 and 2 of Prothero and Sanchez 2004, which are within a mile of the town
Fossils found here
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 16968 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
Difficulty
Getting there
Location on Map
Coordinates: 38.93333, -105.28333
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