Sandy Creek (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Uinta County, Wyoming (41.2° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 96.8° W)
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When: lower Member (Bridger Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: C. L. Gazin. 1976. Mammalian Faunal Zones of the Bridger Middle Eocene. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 26:1-25 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 16410: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Roger Benson and Evangelos Vlachos
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Trionychidae indet.4 Gray 1825 softshell turtle Another fragment of a costal plate, from Little Sandy Creek, is represented in Fig. 12 of the same plate. This specimen differs from the former in being crossed by widely separated ridges, with the intervals finely pitted.
"Amyda aequa" = Trionyx aequa2 Hay 1908 softshell turtle AMNH 3938 (carapace), collected by Messrs. Granger and Sinclair, in 1905 from the mouth of Big Sandy Creek
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Hybemys arenarius n. gen. n. sp.3
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