Two miles north of Gardner (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Huerfano County, Colorado (37.8° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 91.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Huerfano Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• "Upper beds of the Huefano formation"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by AMNH in 1918
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 180105: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 07.07.2016, edited by Jonathan Marcot
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Taxonomic list
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Cheilophis huerfanoensis n. gen. n. sp.1
Cheilophis huerfanoensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Gilmore 1938 boa AMNH 5195 (holotype), about 157 anterior and posterior thoracic vertebrae and numerous rib fragments
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"Paraglyptosaurus princeps" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris3, "cf. Paraglyptosaurus princeps" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris3
"Paraglyptosaurus princeps" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris3 Marsh 1871 squamates AMNH 1618, three dorsal vertebrae, portion of parietal, dermal scute
"cf. Paraglyptosaurus princeps" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris3 Marsh 1871 squamates AMNH 1617, dermal scutes and fragments of two vertebrae
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