Where: Stanislaus County, California (37.7° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 117.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Mehrten Formation, Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)
• upper Mehrten Formation: brown sandstones, siltstones, and conglomerates that
•unconformably overlies pinkish siltstone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: J. Biewer, J. Sankey, J. H. Hutchison and D. Garber. 2016. A fossil giant tortoise from the Mehrten Formation of Northern California. PaleoBios 33:1-15 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 183469: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 23.12.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Hesperotestudo orthopygia Cope 1878 turtle |