Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.3° N, 110.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 96.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Black’s Fork Member (Bridger Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• Middle Bridgerian NALMA (Br2), 47.96 ± 0.13 Ma
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the DMNH
Primary reference: J. J. Head. 2020. A South American snake lineage from the Eocene Greenhouse of North America and a reappraisal of the fossil record of “anilioid” snakes. Geobios [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 216020: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 03.12.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Borealoilysia gunnelli n. sp.
Borealoilysia gunnelli n. sp. Head 2020 pipe snake DMNH EVP 57990A, two articulated precloacal vertebrae
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