Also known as Paleotrionyx quinni type

Where: Mesa County, Colorado (39.7° N, 107.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 90.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: DeBeque Formation, Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)

• Plateau Valley beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. A. Look, Jr. in 1941; reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: K. P. Schmidt. 1945. A new turtle from the Paleocene of Colorado. Fieldiana Geology 10:1-4 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120547: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 16.11.2011

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