"Gnat out of Hell" locality.
A varied fauna, the dark matrix yields micromammal teeth when screenwashed.
Lunch in the desert. Co-Investigator
Dr. Beth Towsend of Case Western Reserve University
has been working in the Basin
for about ten years.
Exploding Middle Eocene Turtle
Protoreodon mandible with
teeth (scale in mm).
This was a rather small, deer
like animal.
Protoreodon mandible,
closeup of M/2 - M/3. Occlusal view.
(scale in mm)
Brontothere lower molar. These
"rhino-like", distant relatives of other
perrisodactyls (horses, rhinos,
tapirs) were big and ugly, with bony
protuberences on the head and
snout instead of "horns", like a rhino.