Where: North Carolina (34.6° N, 78.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 50.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tar Heel Formation, Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: NCSM, North Carolina State Museum collection
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 129839: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 29.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Chedighaii barberi Schmidt 1940 sideneck turtle NCSM 14102, 14103, 14226, 14227, all otic chambers, NCSM 14228, parietals
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