UW V-75004 (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as Dilts Ranch

Where: Converse County, Wyoming (43.3° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 97.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: White River Formation, Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)

• "early Orellan"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified mudstone

• "fluvial deposits"
• "blocks of mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K. Sundell in 1976; reposited in the UW

• University of Wyoming collection

Primary reference: B. H. Breithaupt and D. Duvall. 1986. The oldest record of serpent aggregastion. Lethaia 19:181-185 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99678: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Loxocemidae
Ogmophis sp. Cope 1844 Mexican burrowing snake
 Squamata - Boidae
Calamagras sp. Cope 1873 dwarf boa