"4 miles above east end of Post Office", Cypress Hills (Eocene of Canada)
Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.5° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 51.2° N, 99.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Cypress Hills Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by L. M. Lambe in 1904; reposited in the NMC
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 180203: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 11.07.2016
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Ogmophis compactus n. sp.
Ogmophis compactus n. sp. Lambe 1908 Mexican burrowing snake NMC 6237 (holotype), one dorsal vertebra; NMC 6238, 6239, and 6240 (paratypes) are probably from the same locality; NMC 4241, thoracic vertebra, may also be from here- "east end of Cypress Hills"
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