Turtle Paradise (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (25.6° N, 101.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 75.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Difunta Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Primary reference: D. Brinkman, M. C. Aquillon-Martinez, C. A. De Leon Dávila, H. Jamniczky, D. A. Eberth and M. Colbert. 2009. Euclastes coahuilaensis sp. nov., a basal cheloniid turtle from the late Campanian Cerro del Pueblo Formation of Coahuila State, Mexico. PaleoBios 28(3):76-88 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154161: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 29.01.2014

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
Euclastes coahuilaensis Brinkman et al. 2009 turtle
SPECIMEN NUMBERS BEGIN CPC269 (SEPCP 9/747) SPECIMEN NUMBERS END