Bridger Turtles (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as ETE Locality 1521, Bridger Turtles,

Where: Wyoming (41.7° N, 110.9° W: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 97.2° W)

When: Bridger Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: .

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: P. D. Ambrose. 1992. Taphonomy and paleoenvironments of a turtle-bearing unit of the Bridger Formation, Southwestern Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(3, suppl.):16A [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22647: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 16.04.2001, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
ETE occurrence; species: Testudinidae