DMNH 2550: Puercan, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Hoplochelys crassa (Cope 1888)
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. (Gray 1825)
Reptilia
Compsemys victa (Leidy 1856)
Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876
Lyson et al. 2019
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:El Paso
Coordinates: 38.9° North, 104.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.0° North, 82.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
Key time interval:Puercan
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 63.80000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:65.460 Ma (paleomagnetic)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Denver
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:DMNH
Metadata
Database number:176747
Authorizer:P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos Enterer:P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos
Modifier:E. Vlachos Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-02-28 23:07:49 Last modified:2019-10-25 13:28:55
Access level:the public Released:2016-02-28 23:07:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
26071. J. H. Hutchison and P. A. Holroyd. 2003. Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene turtles of the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 38(1):121-142 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]

Secondary references:

70613 T. R. Lyson, I. M. Miller, A. D. Bercovici, K. Weissenburger, A. J. Fuentes, W. C. Clyde, J. W. Hagadorn, M. J. Butrim, K. R. Johnson, R. F. Fleming, R. S. Barclay, S. A. Maccracken, B. Lloyd, G. P. Wilson, D. W. Krause and S. G. B. Chester. 2019. Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction. Science eaay2268:1-12 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Uhen]