Soft-bodied fossil of a lizard from the Parachute Creek Member, Green River Formation (Eocene), Utah

  • Kenneth Carpenter Prehistoric Museum, Utah State University Eastern
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31711/giw.v5.pp263-269
Keywords: Parachute Creek, Eocene, Green River, Fossil Lake, Lake Gosuite

Abstract

A rare specimen of soft tissue preservation of a lizard from the Parachute Creek Member of the Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah, is described. The preservation is unusual in that it is a miner­alized body lacking the skeleton. This, and other small boneless vertebrate specimens also from the Para­chute Creek, indicate occasional demineralizing conditions in Lake Uinta, but not apparently in the other two lakes of the Green River Formation—Fossil Lake and Lake Gosuite.

Lizard preserved as a carbon film from the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation (Eocene), Uinta Basin, Utah.
Published
2018-10-18
How to Cite
Carpenter , K., 2018, Soft-bodied fossil of a lizard from the Parachute Creek Member, Green River Formation (Eocene), Utah: Geology of the Intermountain West, v. 5, p. 263-269., doi: 10.31711/giw.v5.pp263-269.
Issue
Vol. 5 (2018): Geology of the Intermountain West
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Articles

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