Where: Wallace County, Kansas (39.0° N, 101.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 68.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Niobrara Formation, Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 86.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. F. Mudge and Party in 1876; reposited in the YPM
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 129833: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 29.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Bothremydina indet. Gaffney et al. 2006 sideneck turtle YPM 3608 ("Bothremys barberi, subspecies C" of Gaffney & Zangerl 1968), shell: 'It might also prove to be referable to Chedighaii hutchisoni'
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