Also known as Big Horn Basin
Where: Bighorn County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 91.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• Previously Wasatch Fm, subsequently renamed as Willwood Formation in the early 1940s
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by AMNH in 1911; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1928. Fossil lizards of North America. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 22(3):1-201 [J. Head/J. Head/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180111: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 08.07.2016, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Crocodilus sp." = Crocodylus1
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Glyptosaurinae indet.3, Glyptosaurini indet.3, Glyptosaurus sp.2, "cf. Eoglyptosaurus donohoei" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris3
Glyptosaurus sp.2 Marsh 1871 squamates AMNH 5176, portions of two dentaries and anterior tip of frontals
"cf. Eoglyptosaurus donohoei" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris3 Marsh 1871 squamates YPM 8422, frontal, parietal, part thoracic vertebra, un-ID'd bone fragment
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