WU-23 (Eocene of the United States)

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: Uinta Formation, Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)

• reported as ~83 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.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

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 213070: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 24.08.2020

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Carettochelyidae
Anosteira pulchra Clark 1932 turtle