Also known as Plastomenus visendus type
Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 94.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• 'Bridger deposits'
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Stanley Stuart in 1895; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131894: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 01.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Plastomenus visendus n. sp." = Plastomenus thomasii
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