Where: Meade County, Kansas (37.1° N, 100.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 100.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Rexroad Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• "Rexroad Fauna... Upper Pliocene, upper part of Rexroad formation"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
• University of Kansas and UMMP collections
Primary reference: T. M. Oelrich. 1957. The status of the Upper Pliocene turtle, Testudo turgida Cope. Journal of Paleontology 31(1):228-241 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99819: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Testudo riggsi" = Hesperotestudo turgida
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