Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.1° N, 109.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 47.2° N, 89.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Myton Member (Uinta Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)
• reported as 237 meters in measured section of Townsend et al. 2006. Stratigraphic distribution of upper Middle Eocene vertebrate localities in the eastern Uinta Basin, Utah, with comment on Uintan biostratigraphy. Mountain Geologist 2006 43:115–134; depicted as near middle of Uinta C and Myton Mbr. in Adrian et al. 2021.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. Adrian, P. A. Holroyd, J. H. Hutchison and K.E.B. Townsend. 2020. Additional records and stratigraphic distribution of the middle Eocene carettochelyid turtle Anosteira pulchra from the Uinta Formation of Utah, North America. PeerJ 8(e9775):1-27 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 213066: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 24.08.2020, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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Bridgeremys pusilla1 Hay 1908 turtle UMNH VP 30471 Right partial xiphiplastron, cf. left hypoplastron and two shell fragments, 30477 Right costal 8, 30476 Two individuals; entoplastron and partial entoplastron, 27417 Cf. neural 5, costal fragments with bore mark, two partial peripherals, and three shell fragments
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Omomys sp.1, "? Ourayia sp." = Ourayia2, "Mytonius hopsoni" = Ourayia hopsoni1, "Mytonius sp." = Ourayia1
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