UCMP V82063, Ford Creek (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Carbon County, Utah (41.0° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 89.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: North Horn Formation, Torrejonian (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)

• Hutchison (2009) listed this as "mid-Paleocene (Tiffanian NALMA)", but no basis for this, and all other occurrences from this formation have been assigned to the Puercan or Torrejonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. H. Hutchison. 2009. New soft-shelled turtles (Plastomeninae, Trionychidae, Testudines) from the Cretaceous and Paleocene of North America. PaleoBios 29(2):36-47 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176695: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 27.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
"Plastomenoides lamberti" = Hutchemys rememdium
"Plastomenoides lamberti" = Hutchemys rememdium Joyce et al. 2009 turtle