Where: Khouribga, Morocco (32.9° N, 6.6° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° N, 7.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• Danian phosphates based on shark teeth in matrix
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by private collectors; reposited in the AMNH
• purchased or donated with sparse provenance data
Primary reference: E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 129831: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 28.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Labrostochelys galkini n. gen. n. sp., Bothremys maghrebiana
Labrostochelys galkini n. gen. n. sp. Gaffney et al. 2006 sideneck turtle AMNH 30042, nearly complete skull 'presumed to be Tertiary based on matrix'
Bothremys maghrebiana Gaffney et al. 2006 sideneck turtle AMNH 30234, skull; AMNH 30522, skull; MHNL 20-268370, skull; AMNH 30041, skull
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