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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
cf. Xantusia sp. Baird 1859 night lizard | |
Bridgeremys pusilla Hay 1908 turtle |