Corral Bluffs (UCM loc. 82126) (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Palatobaena bairdi referred specimen

Where: El Paso County, Colorado (38.8° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 82.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Denver Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)

• Originally called Dawson Formation; revised to Denver Formation in 2002-2003

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCM Party in 1974; reposited in the UCM

Primary reference: J. D. Archibald and J. H. Hutchison. 1979. Revision of the genus Palatobaena (Testudines, Baenidae), with the description of a new species. Postilla 177:1-19 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118484: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.10.2011, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Compsemys victa1 Leidy 1856 turtle
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baenidae indet.1 Cope 1882 turtle
Baenodda indet.3 Gaffney and Meylan 1988 turtle
UCM 49229 and 49330
Palatobaena cohen2 Lyson and Joyce 2009 turtle
UCM 37738 (skull and jaw fragments)
Plesiobaena sp.1 Gaffney 1972 turtle
 Testudines -
 Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Hoplochelys crassa1 Cope 1888 mud turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.1, "Axestemys cf. puercensis" = Trionyx singularis1
Trionychidae indet.1 Gray 1825 softshell turtle
"Axestemys cf. puercensis" = Trionyx singularis1 Hay 1907 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Macrobaenidae