DMNH 5812 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.1° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 79.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fossil Forest Member (Fruitland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: pond; carbonaceous mudstone

• The holotype specimen was recovered from a blocky, carbonaceous mudstone horizon likely representing a ponded, overbank depositional environment located in San Juan County, New Mexico, USA.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Mike Getty

Primary reference: W. G. Joyce, T. R. Lyson, and J. J. W. Sertich. 2018. A new species of trionychid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Fruitland Formation of New Mexico, USA. Journal of Paleontology 92(6):1107-1114 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195187: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 25.07.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
Gilmoremys gettyspherensis n. sp.
Gilmoremys gettyspherensis n. sp. Joyce et al. 2018 turtle
DMNH EPV.125905, a partial, disarticulated shell