White River (Uinta B) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.2° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 98.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Myton Member (Uinta Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205622: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 16.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

• equivalent to the middle Uinta deposits
Reptilia
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Echmatemys callopyge n. sp. Hay 1908 turtle
AMNH 2087, almost complete shell
Echmatemys wyomingensis
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"Echmatemys uintensis n. sp." = Echmatemys wyomingensis
"Echmatemys uintensis n. sp." = Echmatemys wyomingensis Leidy 1870
YPM VPPU 011198, complete shell