WU-8 (Eocene of the United States)

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: Ui2 mammal zone, Wagonhound Member (Uinta Formation), Early/Lower Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)

• reported as "57/60" 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 low in Uinta B and near middle of Wagonhound Mbr in Adrian et al. 2021

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

• Brown/gray mudstones rich in nodules;

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Adrian, H. F. Smith, J. H. Hutchison and K. E. B. Townsend. 2021. Geometric morphometrics and anatomical network analyses reveal ecospace partitioning among geoemydid turtles from the Uinta Formation, Utah. The Anatomical Record 1-35 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186888: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 07.07.2017, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle
Baena arenosa Leidy 1870 turtle
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
cf. Hesperotestudo sp. Williams 1950 turtle
Gopherus uintensis gopher tortoise
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Echmatemys callopyge Hay 1908 turtle
Bridgeremys pusilla Hay 1908 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet., "cf. Platypeltis sp." = Apalone (Platypeltis)
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
"cf. Platypeltis sp." = Apalone (Platypeltis) Fitzinger 1835 softshell turtle
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Agriochoeridae
Protoreodon sp. Scott and Osborn 1887 agriochoerid
Echmatemys wyomingensis
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