Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 107.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 87.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Nacimiento Formation, Torrejonian (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)
• 840 feet above the base of the Puerco, in the Torrejon formation" (ibid.). Upper part of the Nacimiento Formation, Paleocene.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. B. Reeside and party 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 128450: 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 victa" = Compsemys victa, "Compsemys torrejonensis n. sp." = Compsemys victa
"Compsemys victa" = Compsemys victa Leidy 1856 turtle USNM 8598 (Gilmore 1919, p. 16, pl. 19 fig. 3), plastron and carapace fragments.
"Compsemys torrejonensis n. sp." = Compsemys victa Leidy 1856 turtle USNM 8549 (type of C. torrejonensis Gilmore, 1919b, p. 21, fig. 5, pl. 4), USNM 8591. The former consists of an almost complete shell (the best described for this genus); the latter is a partial shell
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Adocus onerosus n. sp.
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