Where: Natrona County, Wyoming (43.3° N, 107.4° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 93.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Wind River Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• no formation given in original publication, but area now mapped as Wind River Formation; age interpreted as Bridgerian based on molluscans
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: T.-C. Yen. 1948. Eocene fresh-water Mollusca from Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 22(5):634-640 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 191228: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 17.01.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Unio haydeni freshwater mussel
Unio sp. Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
Lymnaea similis snail | |
Australorbis cf. spectabilis Meek 1860 snail | |
Goniobasis tenera snail |