Converse County (?now Niobrara County), Eubaena cephalica holotype locality (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.0° N, 104.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.5° N, 79.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Lance Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. B. Hatcher and Dr. C. E. Beecher for O. C Marsh in 1889; reposited in the YPM

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 123098: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 11.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Eubaena cephalica n. gen. n. sp.2
Eubaena cephalica n. gen. n. sp.2 Hay 1904 turtle
YPM 1785 (holotype skull)
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Aspideretes beecheri n. sp." = Trionyx beecheri1
"Aspideretes beecheri n. sp." = Trionyx beecheri1 Hay 1904 softshell turtle
YPM specimen (holotype partial skeleton)