Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.1° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 98.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: C Member (Uinta Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)
• "Uinta Lower C"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. C. Roberts, D. A. Hall in 1953, 1954, 1956, 1958; reposited in the MCZ
Collection methods: quarrying,
• specimens reposited in the Utah Field House, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Primary reference: D. C. Roberts. 1962. A study of Echmatemys callopyge from the Uinta Eocene of Utah, and its redefinition as a subspecies of E. septaria. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127(6):375-400 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74505: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Echmatemys septaria" = Echmatemys stevensoniana
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