1 mile from Hardy, on road to Forestburg (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Hardee, Harday

Where: Montague County, Texas (33.6° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 55.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Trinity Group, Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• orig. "Trinity Sand"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. S. Romer, A Witter, and party in 30, 1952; reposited in the MCZ

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: E. S. Gaffney. 1972. The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147(5):245-312 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122912: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 07.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Trinitichelys hiatti n. gen. n. sp.
Trinitichelys hiatti n. gen. n. sp. Gaffney 1972 turtle
MCZ 4070 (holotype skeleton) from 'turtle layer' at locality