Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 90.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Willwood Formation, Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• "Lower Eocene, Gray Bull horizon, Wasatch formation"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. Stein in 1916; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: W. D. Matthew and W. Granger. 1917. The skeleton of Diatryma, a gigantic bird from the Lower Eocene of Wyoming. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 37(11):307-326 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85438: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.12.2008, edited by Philip Mannion, Roger Benson and Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
"Parapheliscus wapitiensis n. gen. n. sp." = Apheliscus wapitiensis2
"Parapheliscus wapitiensis n. gen. n. sp." = Apheliscus wapitiensis2 Van Valen 1967 elephant shrew AMNH 16935 - holotype (right P3-M1)
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| Reptilia | |
"Eugenichelys robertemryi n. gen. n. sp." = Axestemys byssinus3
"Eugenichelys robertemryi n. gen. n. sp." = Axestemys byssinus3 Cope 1872 softshell turtle USNM 12589, type specimen of Eugenichelys robertemryi, skull fragments, partial left dentary, left hyoplastron, right hypoplastron, left and right xiphiplastron; South Elk Creek, Big Horn County, Wyoming, USA; Wasatch Formation, Eocene (Wasatchian)
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| Aves | |
"Diatryma steini n. sp." = Diatryma gigantea
"Diatryma steini n. sp." = Diatryma gigantea Cope 1876 bird | |
| Reptilia | |
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Melanosaurus maximus1 Gilmore 1928 squamates AMNH 6167, several blocks of body scutes, with portion of dentary, coracoid, several vertebrae
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