Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 92.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Green River Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• from immediately above the Wamsutter Coal Bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Wilson in 1936; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: C. C. Mook. 1959. A new species of fossil crocodile of the genus Leidyosuchus from the Green River Beds. American Museum Novitates 1933:1-6 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36713: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 10.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Leidyosuchus wilsoni n. sp." = Borealosuchus wilsoni
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