Also known as Boavus idelmani type locality; Fossil Basin

Where: Uinta County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 110.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 96.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Green River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

• Unknown stratigraphic horizon, privately collected.

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•"W. H. Bradley of the United States Geological Survey was consulted, and he was not only able to recognize the shale as being from the Green River formation, but a peculiar crinkling of the laminae indicated it was from the Fossil Basin area, as that particular type of lamination is not known elsewhere in the Green River formation."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by ?Max Idelman

• From the private collection of Edgar S. Weinberg (New York), inherited from Max Idelman; collection methods/collector therefore uncertain.

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1938. Fossil snakes of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper (9)1-96 [J. Head/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180201: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 11.07.2016

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