Yen locality B6 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (43.4° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 93.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Wind River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

• no formation given in original publication, but area now mapped as Wind River Formation; age interpreted as Bridgerian based on molluscans

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T.-C. Yen. 1948. Eocene fresh-water Mollusca from Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 22(5):634-640 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 191227: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 17.01.2018

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Physidae
Physa sp. Draparnaud 1801 snail
 Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Australorbis spectabilis Meek 1860 snail
 Heterostropha - Lymnaeidae
Lymnaea sp. Lamarck 1799 snail
 Stylommatophora - Vertiginidae