Where: Macon County, Georgia (32.4° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 63.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Midway Group, Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
• from the "Paleocene Midway Formation" according to Hutchison and Weems 1998
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: collector unclear, but specimen given to Cope by Prof. George Little, State Geologist of Georgia
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1877. On a new species of Adocidae from the Tertiary of Georgia. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17(100):82-84 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74548: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Amphiemys oxysternum n. sp." = Agomphus oxysternum
"Amphiemys oxysternum n. sp." = Agomphus oxysternum Cope 1877 mud turtle |