Also known as Chupacabrachelys complexus type, TMM 45606
Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.4° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 77.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Upper Shale Member (Aguja Formation), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• base of the upper shale member, about 1 m above the top of the Terlingua Creek sandstone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; carbonaceous sandstone
•layers of carbonaceous clay
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2005; reposited in the TMM
Primary reference: T. M. Lehman and S. L. Wick. 2010. Chupacabrachelys complexus, n. gen. n. sp. (Testudines: Bothremydidae), from the Aguja Formation (Campanian) of West Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6):1709-1725 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 115413: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 02.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chupacabrachelys complexus n. gen. n. sp.
Chupacabrachelys complexus n. gen. n. sp. Lehman and Wick 2010 sideneck turtle TMM 45606–1 - holotype - skull, lower jaw, a nearly complete shell (missing anterior end of nuchal and first through third peripherals on the right side), atlas and parts of three cervical vertebrae, first through fifth thoracic vertebrae, 10 caudal vertebrae, both scapulae and coracoids, right humerus, both ulnae, right radius, three metacarpals, both innominates, six metatarsals, right astragalus, seven phalanges (limb and position uncertain), and eight ungual phalanges
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