Trbovlje locality (Oligocene of Slovenia)

Also known as Trifail

Where: Trbovlje, Slovenia (46.1° N, 15.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 13.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• Not reported; presumably terrestrial due to presence of terrestrial turtles

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H.-V. Karl. 2007. The fossil reptiles (Reptilia: Chelonii, Crocodylia) from the marine early Oligocene of the Weisselster Basin (Central Germany: Saxonia). Studia Geologica Salamanticensia 43(1):25-66 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187586: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 03.08.2017, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Clemmydopsis turnauensis Meyer 1847 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Trionyx petersi" = Trionyx vindobonensis3, Trionyx stadleri n. sp.2
"Trionyx petersi" = Trionyx vindobonensis3 Peters 1855 softshell turtle
trifailensis (new subspecies)
Trionyx stadleri n. sp.2 Teppner 1913 softshell turtle
UMJGP 11831 (holotype), a nearly complete carapace
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Anthracotherium illyricum n. sp.1 Teller 1886 anthracothere