Where: Bighorn County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 91.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• Previously Wasatch Fm, subsequently renamed as Willwood Formation in the early 1940s
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by W. Granger in 1911
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 180119: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 08.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Melanosaurus maximus Gilmore 1928 squamates AMNH 5175 (paratype), partial skull, parts of limb bones, 10 vertebrae, numerous dermal scutes, unID'd fragments
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