DMNH 2553, White Turtle Locality: Puercan, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Lyson et al. 2019 | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Baenidae indet.
Cope 1882
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | El Paso |
| Coordinates: | 38.9° North, 104.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.1° North, 82.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Puercan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 63.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 65.147 Ma (paleomagnetic) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Denver |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | DMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 176749 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-02-28 23:10:02 | Last modified: | 2019-10-25 13:32:13 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-02-28 23:10:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26071. | J. H. Hutchison and P. A. Holroyd. 2003. Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene turtles of the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 38(1):121-142 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |
Secondary references:
| 70613 | T. R. Lyson, I. M. Miller, A. D. Bercovici, K. Weissenburger, A. J. Fuentes, W. C. Clyde, J. W. Hagadorn, M. J. Butrim, K. R. Johnson, R. F. Fleming, R. S. Barclay, S. A. Maccracken, B. Lloyd, G. P. Wilson, D. W. Krause and S. G. B. Chester. 2019. Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction. Science eaay2268:1-12 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Uhen] |