UCM locality 2006064: Clarkforkian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868
1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Cardichelyon cf. rogerwoodi Hutchison 2013
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Mesa
Coordinates: 39.2° North, 108.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.5° North, 90.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1-2
Key time interval:Clarkforkian
Age range of interval:56.20000 - 54.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fort Union Member:Atwell Gulch
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lichtig and Lucas (2015) report this site as belonging to DeBeque Formation following Kihm (1984), but this is disused and Paleocene beds in this area are assigned to Atwell Gulch Member of Fort Union Formation (see Burger and Honey (2008) JVP 28:816-825).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Secondary lithology: claystone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCM
Metadata
Database number:176832
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-03-05 17:43:56 Last modified:2016-03-05 17:43:56
Access level:the public Released:2016-03-05 17:43:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
58364. A. J. Lichtig and S. G. Lucas. 2015. Paleocene-Eocene turtles of the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 67:145-152 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]