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
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"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)
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