Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.1° N, 104.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.3° N, 88.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wind River Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Expedition in charge of Mr. Walter Granger, in 1905; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131862: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 31.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Baptemys tricarinata n. gen. n. sp." = Baptemys garmanii
"Baptemys tricarinata n. gen. n. sp." = Baptemys garmanii Cope 1872 mud turtle AMNH 6109 (holotype partial shell)
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