Tinosaurus pristinus type locality (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Uinta County, Wyoming (41.3° N, 110.6° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 96.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Bridger Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by J. Van A. Carter
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1928. Fossil lizards of North America. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 22(3):1-201 [J. Head/J. Head/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179965: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 05.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Tinosaurus pristinus n. sp.
Tinosaurus pristinus n. sp. Leidy 1872 squamates Philadelphia Acad. Sci. cat. no. 9134 (holotype), median portion of right dentary with eight teeth
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