near Punta Peligro, MPEF-PV 10831 locality: Danian, Argentina
collected 2013-2014
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Peligrochelys walshae
Sterli and de la Fuente 2013
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| MPEF–PV 10831, Right frontal, left and right postorbitals, right and left quadrates, left quadratojugal, left and right exoccipitals, neural arch of cervical vertebra 3, cervical vertebrae 4 and 7, medial thoracic vertebra and thoracic vertebra 9, 2 sacral vertebrae, 11 caudal vertebrae, nuchal bone, neural bone, left and right peripherals 1, left peripheral 2, last left bridge peripheral, indeterminate plastral fragments, left scapula, proximal end of left coracoid, proximal and distal ends of left humerus, one left metacarpal, two phalanges, one ungual phalanx, right femur, distal end of left tibia, and left astragalocalcaneum | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Chubut |
| Coordinates: | 45.5° South, 67.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.1° South, 56.4° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | unpublished field data | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Danian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Salamanca | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Banco Negro Inferior, BN1 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | mire/swamp |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Collection size: | 1 individuals |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | MEF | Collection dates: | 2013-2014 |
| Collection method comments: Material stored in the collections of Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Chubut | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 200060 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-03-06 07:28:36 | Last modified: | 2021-04-15 12:12:57 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-03-06 07:28:36 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 68072. | J. Sterli and M. S. de la Fuente. 2019. Cranial and post-cranial remains and phylogenetic relationships of the Gondwanan meiolaniform turtle Peligrochelys walshae from the Paleocene of Chubut, Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 93(4):798-821 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion] |