Tatman Mountain (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Park and Bighorn County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 91.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "Wasatch formation (higher level Tatman Mountain), Lower Eocene" - subsequently renamed as Willwood Formation in the early 1940s

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• none given

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by F. B. Loomis in 1904

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 180109: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 07.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Glyptosaurus obtusidens n. sp.
Glyptosaurus obtusidens n. sp. Loomis 1907 squamates
ACC no. 133 (holotype), median portion of left dentary with 5 teeth; ACC 106, ventral shield; additional two vertebrae with no catalogue number. Estes (1983) lists the holotype number as ACC 3612.