Emarginachelys cretacea type locality (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.5° N, 106.9° W: paleocoordinates 54.3° N, 80.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• The turtle was preserved s a large 'clast' in a medium grained sandstone which lies 5.2 m (27 feet) below the "Z" coal of the Paleocene Ft. Union Formation.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; argillaceous, conglomeratic sandstone

• Sandstone with clay pebble conglomerate (Fig. 2)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Don and Stan Rasmussen, and John Chorn, University of Kansas in 1971

• KUVP collection, Kansas

Primary reference: K. N. Whetstone. 1978. A new genus of cryptodiran turtles (Testudinoidea, Chelydridae) from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of Montana. Univeristy of Kansas Science Bulletin 51(17):539-563 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131973: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 03.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

• The vertebrate fossils found with the specimen included scales of ganoid fishes, crocodile teeth and bones, and indeterminate dinosaur fragments
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Reptilia
 Testudines -
Emarginachelys cretacea n. gen. n. sp.
Emarginachelys cretacea n. gen. n. sp. Whetstone 1978 turtle
KUVP 23488, holotype almost complete skeleton