Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 90.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

• "Willwood Formation... early Eocene (Gray Bull fauna)"

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1910; reposited in the AMNH

• "collected by the American Museum expedition of 1910"

Primary reference: J. Cracraft. 1968. Reallocation of the Eocene fossil Palaeophasianus meleagroides Shufeldt. Wilson Bulletin 80(3):281-285 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74631: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.08.2007

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