Willwood Fm Echmatemys megaulax specimen (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 91.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

• Paper lists locality as "Wasatch formation" but USNM catalogue lists as Willwood Formation, which is more up to date.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. F. Hewett in 1911; reposited in the UNSM

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1919. New fossil turtles, with notes on two described species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 56(2282):113-132 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177251: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 23.03.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Echmatemys megaulax" = Emys megaulax
"Echmatemys megaulax" = Emys megaulax Cope 1873 turtle
USNM 7316