Holmes Pasture: Late/Upper Pliocene, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo riggsi
Hibbard 1944
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| synonym of Hesperotestudo turgida | ||||||||||
| as "Testudo turgida" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Meade |
| Coordinates: | 37.1° North, 100.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.2° North, 100.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Rexroad | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Rexroad Fauna... Upper Pliocene, upper part of Rexroad formation" |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
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: | UCMP |
| Collection method comments: University of Kansas and UMMP collections | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 99819 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-11-23 13:18:09 | Last modified: | 2010-11-22 20:18:09 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-11-23 13:18:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34314. | 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] |