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
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Anosteira pulchra Clark 1932 turtle |