Where: Hot Springs County, Wyoming (43.6° N, 107.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 50.5° N, 85.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• formation not given, but is said to be reported in Tourtelot in prep. on NE part of Wind River Basin; mollusks obtained from uppermost part of the stratigraphic section
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by JD Love in 1944
Primary reference: T.-C. Yen. 1946. Eocene Nonmarine Gastropods from Hot Spring County, Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 20(5):495-5000 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197778: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 25.11.2018
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Australorbis spectabilis Meek 1860 snail |