Running Water Creek (few miles west of Agate) ( of the United States)

Also known as Agate

Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 98.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Harrison Formation, Harrisonian (24.8 - 18.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by O. A. Peterson

• Carnegie Museum

Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1906. Descriptions of new species of turtles of the genus Testudo, collected from the Miocene by the Carnegie Museum; together with a description of the skull of Stylemys nebrascensis. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4:15-20 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191903: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 20.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
"Testudo edae n. sp." = Gopherus edae
"Testudo edae n. sp." = Gopherus edae Hay 1906 gopher tortoise
CM 1535 (holotype), a shell (Hay 1908, pl. 83.1–2)