Where: Randall County, Texas (34.9° N, 101.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 101.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• "Upper Pliocene... overlain and underlain by fossil-bearing strata" that yield the Cita Canyon mammal fauna, but "thus far only turtles have been discovered" in the intermediate "stratum"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, coarse-grained, brown sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. S. Johnston
• Panhandle Plains Historical Museum collection
Primary reference: C. S. Johnston. 1937. Osteology of Bysmachelys canyonensis a new turtle from the Pliocene of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 45(4):439-447 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99817: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Bysmachelys canyonensis n. gen. n. sp." = Gopherus hexagonatus
"Bysmachelys canyonensis n. gen. n. sp." = Gopherus hexagonatus Cope 1893 gopher tortoise |