Where: Washakie County, Wyoming (44.0° N, 107.7° W: paleocoordinates 48.5° N, 91.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wa0 mammal zone, Willwood Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• meter level 24.85 (refer to Secord et al. [2012] for meter level context), Cabin Fork area, southeastern Bighorn Basin
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the FLMNH
Primary reference: J. R. Bourque, J. H. Hutchison, P. A. Holroyd and J. I. Bloch. 2015. A new dermatemydid (Testudines, Kinosternoidea) from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Willwood Formation, southeastern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (e905481)1-19 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176522: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 15.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Gomphochelys nanus n. gen. n. sp." = Baptemys nanus
"Gomphochelys nanus n. gen. n. sp." = Baptemys nanus Bourque et al. 2015 mud turtle | |
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