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: Myton Member (Uinta Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)

• reported as 361 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 high in 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 213059: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 24.08.2020, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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