DMNH loc. 727 (Gatortown) (Eocene of the United States)

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
 Squamata - Aniliidae
Borealoilysia gunnelli n. sp. Head 2020 pipe snake
DMNH EVP 57990A, two articulated precloacal vertebrae