Fort Washington Construction Site: Thanetian, Maryland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Judithemys kranzi n. sp.
Weems 2014
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Osteopygis kranzi | ||||||||||
| CMM-V-4755 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Maryland | County: | Prince Georges |
| Coordinates: | 38.7° North, 77.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.3° North, 58.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Thanetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Thanetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 59.20000 - 56.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Pamunkey | Formation: | Aquia | Member: | Piscataway |
| Stratigraphy comments: broken from an Aquia Formation hard-bed, very probably “Zone 3” or “Zone 5” of the Piscataway Member | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified calcareous "siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "in a block of lime-cemented rock" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: "lime-cemented rock" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 167205 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-03-08 17:02:41 | Last modified: | 2023-05-31 15:26:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-03-08 17:02:41 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54562. | R. E. Weems. 2014. Paleogene chelonians from Maryland and Virginia. PaleoBios 31(1):1-32 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |
Secondary references:
| 82442 | A. D. Gentry, C. R. Kiernan, and J. F. Parham. 2023. A large non-marine turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of Alabama and a review of North American “macrobaenids”. The Anatomical Record 306(6):1411-1430 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Carrano] |