Lysite Mountain, 40 ft from top (Eocene of the United States)

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 197777: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 25.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Stylommatophora - Vertiginidae
 Heterostropha - Physidae
 Heterostropha - Planorbidae
 Heterostropha - Lymnaeidae