Where: Hot Springs County, Wyoming (43.6° N, 107.6° W: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 94.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• formation not given, but is said to be reported in Tourtelot in prep. on NE part of Wind River Basin; mollusks obtained from uppermost part of the stratigraphic section
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by JD Love in 1944
Primary reference: T.-C. Yen. 1946. Eocene Nonmarine Gastropods from Hot Spring County, Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 20(5):495-5000 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197776: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 25.11.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Glypterpes veternus snail | |
Physa sp. Draparnaud 1801 snail | |
Anisus cirrus snail
Australorbis utahensis snail
Australorbis spectabilis Meek 1860 snail
Menetus cf. vetulus snail | |
Charydrobia sp. Stache snail |