Testudo gringorum Type Locality: Early/Lower Miocene, Argentina
collected by Justino Hernández, Scarritt Patagonian Expedition 1933
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo gringorum n. sp.
Simpson 1942
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= Chelonoidis gringorum
Simpson 1942
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de Broin and de la Fuente 1993 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Chubut |
| Coordinates: | 43.3° South, 65.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.0° South, 59.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "High in the predominantly marine Patagonian section overlying the fissile or laminated beds of the Angosturas... early or middle Miocene in age, more likely the former" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,yellow sandstone |
| Lithology description: "fairly massive yellow-gray sandstone" | |
| Environment: | fluvial-deltaic indet. |
| Geology comments: from a "predominantly marine series... evidently deposited near shore" that "has recurrent definitely shore-line facies, perhaps also some truly fluviatile intercalations" and interpreted as terrestrial | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | Justino Hernández, Scarritt Patagonian Expedition | Collection dates: | 21 November 1933 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 74499 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | J. Alroy, E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-08-07 20:25:11 | Last modified: | 2007-08-07 23:25:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-08-07 20:25:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24995. | G. G. Simpson. 1942. A Miocene tortoise from Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 1209:1-6 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 42415 | F. de Broin and M. de la Fuente. 1993. Les tortues fossiles d'Argentine: synthese [The fossil turtles of Argentina: synthesis]. Annales de Paléontologie (Invertebrés-Vertebrés) 79(3):169-232 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano] |