Muddy Creek ( of the United States)
Where: Laramie County, Wyoming (41.2° N, 104.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 98.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Upper Harrison Formation, Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Deposited in Amherst College
Primary reference: F. B. Loomis. 1909. Turtles from the upper Harrison beds. American Journal of Science 63:17-26 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 191902: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 20.02.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Testudo brevisterna n. sp." = Gopherus brevisternus
"Testudo brevisterna n. sp." = Gopherus brevisternus Loomis 1909 gopher tortoise ACM 2006 (holotype), a skull, shell, and associated appendicular elements (Loomis 1909, figs. 5–8)
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"Testudo undabuna n. sp." = Oligopherus laticuneus
"Testudo undabuna n. sp." = Oligopherus laticuneus Cope 1873 turtle ACM 2007 (holotype), a carapace (Loomis 1909, fig. 9)
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