Also known as UCMP V71238; Palatobaena gaffneyi type locality
Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 92.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Wa7 mammal zone, Main Body Member (Wasatch Formation), Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• Main body of Wasatch Formation
Environment/lithology: fluvial; massive, lag sandstone
•to the basal lag deposit in a sandstone unit with clay-pebble lenses
•and unionid clams that immediately overlies and cuts into the
•mudstone of V71237 (UCMP locality records; also see Williamson
•2001). Strait et al. 2016: "massive, moderately-indurated sandstone unit that immediately overlies the mudstone of V71237. In V71238 fossils are found as lag in apprximately 10 cm at the base of this sandstone unit and appear to represent a direct reworking of the underlying mudstone unit."
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collected in 1972 onward; reposited in the UCM, UCMP
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve
• collected repeatedly by UCMP and UCM crews
Primary reference: J. D. Archibald and J. H. Hutchison. 1979. Revision of the genus Palatobaena (Testudines, Baenidae), with the description of a new species. Postilla 177:1-19 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 118482: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.10.2011, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Haplomylus speirianus" = Microsyops speirianus2
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Palatobaena gaffneyi n. sp.
Palatobaena gaffneyi n. sp. Archibald and Hutchison 1979 turtle UCMP 114529 - type (nearly complete skull lacking right orbital region, sutures not co-ossified, slightly distorted)
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"Kinosternidae indet." = Kinosternoidea2
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"Echmatemys testudinea" = Notomorpha testudinea2
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