Rattlesnake Hills (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Plastomenus visendus type

Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 94.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

• 'Bridger deposits'

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Stanley Stuart in 1895; 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 131894: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 01.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
"Plastomenus visendus n. sp." = Plastomenus thomasii
"Plastomenus visendus n. sp." = Plastomenus thomasii Cope 1872 turtle
AMNH 1895 shell