Hoot Owl Canyon (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as 15 miles southwest of Vernal

Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.3° N, 109.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 100.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Duchesne River Formation, Duchesnean (40.4 - 37.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by Party of J. LeRoy Kay in 1931; reposited in the CM

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical

Primary reference: J. Clark. 1932. A new turtle from the Duchesne Oligocene of the Uinta basin, northeastern Utah. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 21:131-160 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191909: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 21.02.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Some traces of fossil leaves (maple-, oak-like and sequoia)
Reptilia
 Testudines - Pantestudinidae
"Cymatholcus longus n. gen. n. sp." = Cymatholcus schucherti
"Cymatholcus longus n. gen. n. sp." = Cymatholcus schucherti Hay 1899 turtle
CM 11891 (holotype), a partial shell and associated limb elements (Clark 1932, figs. 1–10)