Amyda ventricosa type locality, Rio Arriba County (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.6° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 91.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• 'Wasatch deposits'
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. D. Cope in 1874; reposited in the USNM
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 131938: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 02.08.2012
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Trionyx ventricosus n. sp.
Trionyx ventricosus n. sp. Cope 1877 turtle USNM 1112: represented by somewhat more than 25 fragments, which Cope states belong to 3 individuals
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