Also known as Clark's Fork Basin, Pat O'Hara Creek mouth
Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.9° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 49.7° N, 91.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• "above red-banded beds"
•Previously Wasatch Fm, subsequently renamed as Willwood Formation in the early 1940s
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by William Stein in 1912
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1928. Fossil lizards of North America. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 22(3):1-201 [J. Head/J. Head/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180118: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 08.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Melanosaurus maximus n. gen. n. sp.
Melanosaurus maximus n. gen. n. sp. Gilmore 1928 squamates AMNH 5168 (holotype), greater portion of a crushed skull and lower jaws, parts of 2 vertebrae, numerous dermal scutes, many fragments
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