Where: Nealtican, Mexico (19.1° N, 98.4° W: paleocoordinates 19.1° N, 98.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Based on datings of the volcanic ash and organic material, the fossils have an age of 14,000 years
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; volcaniclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1960
• Colección Paleontológica del Centro Regional INAH-Puebla
Primary reference: J. A. Herrera-Flores. 2009. Restos fosiles de tortugas en San Buenaventura Nealtican, Puebla. Acta Zoológica Mexicana 25(3):455-464 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 198281: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 13.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Trachemys sp. Agassiz 1857 slider CRINAHP-1841, left hyoplastron, and CRINAHP-1842, a partial carapace
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