Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 86.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Nacimiento Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)
• "Puerco formation (50 feet above the base) . . . " (ibid.). Nacimiento Formation, Paleocene
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. B. Reeside in 1916; reposited in the USNM
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 128449: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 09.06.2012, edited by Bethany Allen
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Taxonomic list
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"Compsemys puercensis n. sp." = Compsemys victa
"Compsemys puercensis n. sp." = Compsemys victa Leidy 1856 turtle USNM 8544 (type of C. puercensis Gilmore, 1919b, p. 19, fig. 3, pl. 3), partial shell
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Adocus hesperius n. sp.
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