South Bitter Creek (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 96.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Col. John H. Knight

Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1869. Notice of some extinct vertebrates from Wyoming and Dakota. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21:63-67 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198892: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 17.01.2019

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
"Crocodilus aptus n. sp." = Crocodylus aptus
"Crocodilus aptus n. sp." = Crocodylus aptus Leidy 1869 crocodile
"cervical vertebra"