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 | |
"Plastomenoides lamberti" = Hutchemys rememdium
"Plastomenoides lamberti" = Hutchemys rememdium Joyce et al. 2009 turtle |