Linqu turtle locality: Early/Lower Eocene, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Anosteira shantungensis n. sp.
Cheng 1961
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1 individual | |||||||||
| synonym of Anosteira mongoliensis | ||||||||||
| Skull and partial carapace | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Shandong |
| Coordinates: | 36.5° North, 118.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.7° North, 111.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Niushan | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Primary reference states age as Early/Lower Oligocene but more recent literature uses Early Eocene. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Linchu | ||
| Database number: | 154958 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-03-24 06:30:17 | Last modified: | 2017-09-20 08:22:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-03-24 06:30:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 50503. | Z.-W. Cheng. 1961. A new ansterine turtle from Linchu, Shanting. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 5(3):273-277 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 58770 | D. B. Brinkman, J.-L. Li, and X.-K. Ye. 2008. Order Testudines. In J. Li, X. Wu, F. Zhange (eds.), The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and Their Kin 35-102 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson] | |
| 63405 | W. G. Joyce. 2014. A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Carettochelys. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 55(1):3-33 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |