Piceoerpeton willwoodense type locality (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.8° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.6° N, 91.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• "Lower Willwood Formation"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
• none given
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by D. Burt in 1962
• Princeton University specimen
Primary reference: C. A. M. Meszoely. 1967. A new cryptobranchid salamander from the Early Eocene of Wyoming. Copeia 1967(2):346-349 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75868: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• equivalent to UMMP collections SC-50, SC-55, and SC-56 combined
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"Piceoerpeton willwoodensis n. gen. n. sp." = Piceoerpeton willwoodense
"Piceoerpeton willwoodensis n. gen. n. sp." = Piceoerpeton willwoodense Meszoely 1967 salamander YPM (PU) 18021 - holotype (trunk vertebra that is cracked and missing zygapophyseal processes, transverse processes, and distal part of neural spine)
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