Gironde (Miocene) (Miocene of France)

Where: France (44.8° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Middle Miocene (Lydekker 1889)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History) Part III. The Order Chelonia 1-239 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198610: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 27.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
Chelone girundica Delfortrie 1869 sea turtle
BMNH 32351, fifth right costal bone and a rib of a juvenile