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, Uinta Formation, Uintan (46.2 - 40.4 Ma)
• reported as 96 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: H. F. Smith, J. H. Hutchison, K. E. B. Townsend, B. Adrian and D. Jager. 2017. Morphological variation, phylogenetic relationships, and geographic distribution of the Baenidae (Testudines), based on new specimens from the Uinta Formation (Uinta Basin), Utah (USA). PLoS ONE 12(7):e0180574 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186892: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 07.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Baena arenosa Leidy 1870 turtle |