Wampus Cat Quarry (Eocene of the United States)

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

• "the bottom of a pond or lake"
• "either a highly calcareous mudstone or a marlstone" with "argillaceous material and calciite [representing]... approximately 45 and 50% repectively" plus some "very find sand and silt"

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

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
"Echmatemys septaria" = Echmatemys stevensoniana
"Echmatemys septaria" = Echmatemys stevensoniana Leidy 1870 turtle
subspecies E. septaria callopyge
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet.
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
two teeth and a scute