DMNH 870, Casa de Mono (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 95.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blacks Fork Member (Bridger Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the DMNH

Primary reference: S. J. ElShafie. 2024. Body size estimation from isolated fossil bones reveals deep time evolutionary trends in North American lizards. PLoS ONE 19(1:e0296318):1-25 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176700: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 27.02.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Xantusiidae
cf. Xantusia sp. Baird 1859 night lizard
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Bridgeremys pusilla Hay 1908 turtle