FMNH PR966 locality: Uintan, Wyoming
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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| FMNH PR966, a near-complete but lightly crushed cranium |
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| Country: | United States |
State/province: | Wyoming |
County: | Sweetwater |
| Coordinates: |
41.7° North, 108.9° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.6° North, 88.4° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Period: | Paleogene |
Epoch: | Eocene |
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10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 |
| Key time interval: | Uintan |
| Age range of interval: | 46.2 - 39.7 m.y. ago |
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | FMNH |
| Taxonomic list comments:The find is not accompanied by shell remains or any other fauna. |
| Database number: | 198273 |
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos |
Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | E. Vlachos |
| Created: | 2018-12-13 09:10:27 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2018-12-13 09:10:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 67556. | | W. G. Joyce, V. S. Volpato, and Y. Rollot. 2018. The skull of the carettochelyid turtle Anosteira pulchra from the Eocene (Uintan) of Wyoming and the carotid canal system of carettochelyid turtles. Fossil Record 21:301-310 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |