Uinta Basin (non-specific) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Uinta County, Utah (40.1° N, 109.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 98.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Uinta Formation, Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)

• "Uinta Formation, Upper Eocene"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Earl Douglass, J. T. Gochschine in 1908

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1928. Fossil lizards of North America. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 22(3):1-201 [J. Head/J. Head/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179978: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 06.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata -
"Thinosaurus paucidens" = Saniwa ensidens
"Thinosaurus paucidens" = Saniwa ensidens Leidy 1870 squamates
CM 3278, 22 vertebrae, other skeletal fragments