Levitt Creek, Mountain View (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Hassiacosuchus kayi type

Where: Uinta County, Wyoming (41.3° N, 110.3° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 96.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Black's Fork Member (Bridger Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. LeRoy Kay in 1936; reposited in the CM

Primary reference: C. C. Mook. 1941. A new crocodilian, Hassiacosuchus kayi, from the Bridger Eocene beds of Wyoming. Annals of Carnegie Museum 28:207-220 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144593: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 13.05.2013, edited by Terri Cleary

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
"Paraglyptosaurus princeps" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris
"Paraglyptosaurus princeps" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris Marsh 1871 squamates
USNM 12590, nearly complete frontal and skull fragment; USNM 16599, anterior and right posterior part of frontal and un-ID'd bone fragment (west branch of Levitt Creek)
 Crocodylia -
"Hassiacosuchus kayi n. sp." = Procaimanoidea kayi
"Hassiacosuchus kayi n. sp." = Procaimanoidea kayi Mook 1941 crocodilian
CM 9600 - type (near complete skeleton)