Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 91.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• Paper lists locality as "Wasatch formation" but USNM catalogue lists as Willwood Formation, which is more up to date.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. F. Hewett in 1911; reposited in the UNSM
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1919. New fossil turtles, with notes on two described species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 56(2282):113-132 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 177251: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 23.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Echmatemys megaulax" = Emys megaulax
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