Where: Kiowa County, Kansas (37.5° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 57.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kiowa Shale Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• These bones were found in the Kiowa shales, a portion of the Comanche series and near the top of the Lower Cretaceous.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Colorado College collection (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 130807: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 14.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Plesiochelys belviderensis n. sp." = Glyptops belviderensis
"Plesiochelys belviderensis n. sp." = Glyptops belviderensis Cragin 1902 sea turtle two first costals, fragments of other costals, a neural bone and a dorsal vertebral centrum
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