Southwest of Sage Point (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 86.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Torrejonian (63.3 - 61.7 Ma)

• Paleocene, approximately Rock Bench Quarry level (label), Torrejonian.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by William Morris in 1, 1951

• PU, Princeton University collection

Primary reference: E. S. Gaffney. 1972. The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147(5):245-312 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128435: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 08.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

• some or all of this material may be from SC-264 (see)
Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Eubaeninae indet. turtle
PU 16838, posterior half of skull, including ear, basicranium, and braincase