Where: El Paso County, Colorado (38.9° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 82.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Denver Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the DMNH
Primary reference: J. H. Hutchison and P. A. Holroyd. 2003. Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene turtles of the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 38(1):121-142 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176748: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 28.02.2016, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Trionychinae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |
Mammalia | |
"Carsioptychus coarctatus" = Periptychus coarctatus
"Carsioptychus coarctatus" = Periptychus coarctatus Cope 1883 condylarth |