East side of Elk Creek (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 90.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: N. S. Vitek. 2012. Giant fossil soft-shelled turtles of North America. Palaeontologia Electronica 15(1):13A [R. Benson/R. Benson/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 141580: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 29.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Axestemys byssina Cope 1872 softshell turtle USNM 16174, fragmentary carapace, left and right hyoplastra and hypoplastra, partial epiplastron; East side of Elk Creek, Big Horn County, Wyoming, USA; Wasatch Formation, Eocene (Wasatchian)
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