South Bitter Creek (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 96.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Col. John H. Knight
Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1869. Notice of some extinct vertebrates from Wyoming and Dakota. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21:63-67 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 198892: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 17.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Show authors, comments, and common names
Reptilia | |
"Crocodilus aptus n. sp." = Crocodylus aptus
|