Also known as Aspideretes latus type
Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 57.9° N, 75.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Belly River Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Levi Sternberg in 1917; reposited in the UNSM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1919. New fossil turtles, with notes on two described species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 56(2282):113-132 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 177169: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 22.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Apalone latus" = Trionyx latus, "Aspideretes latus n. sp." = Trionyx latus
"Apalone latus" = Trionyx latus Gilmore 1919 softshell turtle Referred specimens TMP 67.9.26 costal, TMP 80.8.116, 90.36.142 carapaces
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