City of Austin (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Travis County, Texas (30.3° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 97.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1916. Descriptions of some fossil vertebrates found in Texas. Bulletin of the University of Texas 71:3-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 196055: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 03.09.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Terrapene whitneyi n. sp." = Terrapene ornata
"Terrapene whitneyi n. sp." = Terrapene ornata Agassiz 1857 Western box turtle USNM 8617 (holotype), a complete shell (Hay 1916b, pls. 1.4–5, 2.1)
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