Also known as Yaminuechelys maior type locality
Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.3° S, 67.0° W: paleocoordinates 47.8° S, 56.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hansen Member (Salamanca Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• Banco Negro Inferior
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Reposited in the MACN, MLP
Primary reference: P. Bona and M. S. de la Fuente. 2005. Phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic implications of Yaminuechelys maior (Staesche, 1929) new comb, a large long-necked chelid turtle from the early Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):569-582 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 118384: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 13.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Naiadochelys maior n. sp." = Yaminuechelys maior
"Naiadochelys maior n. sp." = Yaminuechelys maior Staesche 1929 sideneck turtle MPEF PV 1273 - neotype (posterior skull fragment [occipital, otic, and parietal area], mandible, hyoid apparatus, atlas-axis, carapace and plastron) and numerous referred material stored in MPEF, MLP and MACN
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Salamanchelys palaeocenica n. gen. n. sp.
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