AMNH PR 88-3: Burdigalian, Puerto Rico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae
Bairdemys hartsteini n. sp. Gaffney and Wood 2002
Gaffney and Wood 2002 1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
synonym of Testudines
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18.4° North, 66.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.2° North, 65.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cibao
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Metadata
Database number:56978
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-30 07:03:10 Last modified:2019-09-19 21:17:37
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-30 07:03:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15365. R. D. E. MacPhee and A. R. Wyss. 1990. Oligo-Miocene vertebrates from Puerto Rico, with a catalog of localities. American Museum Novitates 2965:1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

44201 E. S. Gaffney and R. C. Wood. 2002. Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. 3359:1-28 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]