Where: Washakie County, Wyoming (43.9° N, 108.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 51.8° N, 80.9° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• in or below the Wa-0 redbed
•said to be "< 30 m" in the southern Bighorn Basin section; 15 m level is arbitrary
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; red siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: P. A. Holroyd, J. H. Hutchison, and S. G. Strait. 2001. Turtle diversity and abundance through the lower Eocene Willwood Formation of the southern Bighorn Basin. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 33:97-108 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59905: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |
Echmatemys sp. Hay 1906 turtle |