CMN Locality P5511 (Paleocene of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 113.9° W: paleocoordinates 58.0° N, 88.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)

• age estimated from nearby mammal localities, C. Scott pers. comm. 2011 in Brinkman, 2013

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• heavily consolidated buff sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Wann Langston

• specimens at Canadian Museum of Nature

Primary reference: D. B. Brinkman. 2013. Non-trionychid turtles from the Paleocene of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50:282-293 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176515: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 15.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Macrobaenidae
"Judithemys backmani" = Osteopygis backmani
"Judithemys backmani" = Osteopygis backmani Russell 1934 turtle
CMN 54660
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
""Aspideretes" superstes" = Aspideretoides superstes
""Aspideretes" superstes" = Aspideretoides superstes Russell 1930 turtle