Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.1° N, 109.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 98.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ui2 mammal zone, Wagonhound Member (Uinta Formation), Early/Lower Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)
• reported as "57/60" 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 low in Uinta B and near middle of Wagonhound Mbr in Adrian et al. 2021
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. Adrian, H. F. Smith, J. H. Hutchison and K. E. B. Townsend. 2021. Geometric morphometrics and anatomical network analyses reveal ecospace partitioning among geoemydid turtles from the Uinta Formation, Utah. The Anatomical Record 1-35 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186888: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 07.07.2017, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Reptilia | |
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Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle
Baena arenosa Leidy 1870 turtle | |
Trionychidae indet., "cf. Platypeltis sp." = Apalone (Platypeltis)
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
"cf. Platypeltis sp." = Apalone (Platypeltis) Fitzinger 1835 softshell turtle | |
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Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
cf. Hesperotestudo sp. Williams 1950 turtle
Gopherus uintensis gopher tortoise | |
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Bridgeremys pusilla Hay 1908 turtle
Echmatemys callopyge Hay 1908 turtle | |
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Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
| Mammalia | |
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Protoreodon sp. Scott and Osborn 1887 agriochoerid | |
| Echmatemys wyomingensis | |
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Echmatemys wyomingensis Leidy 1870 | |