Where: Wyoming (41.3° N, 110.4° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 96.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Bridger Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• Probably from the Bridger Formation.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Van A. Carter in 1871; reposited in the ANSP
• COLLECTOR: J. Van A. Carter, (possibly) 1871.
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 128447: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 09.06.2012, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Trionyx guttatus1 Leidy 1869 turtle Many fragments, both of the carapace and plastron of soft-shelled turtles, collected during Professor Hayden's expedition of 1870, and subsequently bj' Drs. Carter and Corson at various localities in the vicinity of Fort Bridger, appear to be referable to the same species as the above
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Emys wyomingensis n. sp.1
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"Emys haydeni n. sp." = Echmatemys haydeni3, "Emys jeanesi n. sp." = Echmatemys jeanesi3, "Emys stevensonianus n. sp." = Echmatemys stevensoniana2
"Emys haydeni n. sp." = Echmatemys haydeni3 Leidy 1870 turtle USNM 109 (holotype), a partial carapace
"Emys jeanesi n. sp." = Echmatemys jeanesi3 Leidy 1870 turtle USNM 962 (holotype), a partial shell (Leidy 1873, pl. 10; Hay 1908, figs. 392, 393).
"Emys stevensonianus n. sp." = Echmatemys stevensoniana2 Leidy 1870 turtle USNM 963 (anterior lobe), 965 (partial carapace), 967 (anterior lobe) (syntype series) (Leidy 1873, pl. 9.2–4)
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"Testudo corsoni" = Hadrianus corsoni5 Leidy 1871 turtle Some of them had been previously collected by Drs. Corson and Carter, and others were found during our explorations of the buttes near Fort Bridger
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"Baena undata n. sp." = Chisternon undatum
"Baena undata n. sp." = Chisternon undatum Leidy 1871 turtle ANSP 10040 (Leidy, 1873, pl. 14), a partial shell.
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| Mammalia | |
Omomys carteri n. gen. n. sp.1
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| Baptemys wyomingensis | |
Baptemys wyomingensis n. gen. n. sp.2
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