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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Eubaeninae indet. turtle PU 16838, posterior half of skull, including ear, basicranium, and braincase
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