Fort Bridger Region (Bridger B) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (41.3° N, 110.4° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 96.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by AMNH party in 1903; 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 131896: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 01.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
"Plastomenus oedemius" = Anostira oedemia
"Plastomenus oedemius" = Anostira oedemia Cope 1872 turtle
AMNH 5978, nearly complete carapace and fragmentary plastron