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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Euclastes coahuilaensis Brinkman et al. 2009 turtle SPECIMEN NUMBERS BEGIN CPC269 (SEPCP 9/747) SPECIMEN NUMBERS END
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