Also known as Elk Creek

Where: Bighorn County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 91.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

• "Greybull formation, Wasatch, Eocene" - previously Wasatch Fm, subsequently renamed as Willwood Formation in the early 1940s

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by George B. Pierce in 1935

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1938. Descriptions of new and little-known fossil lizards from North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 86(3042):11-26 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180470: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 19.07.2016

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