Where: Burlington County, New Jersey (40.0° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 51.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hornerstown Formation (Rancocas Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian to Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 61.7 Ma)
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. D. Cope in 1868; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ)
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 128428: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 08.06.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Taphrosphys molops" = Taphrosphys sulcatus
"Taphrosphys molops" = Taphrosphys sulcatus Leidy 1856 sideneck turtle AMNH 1129 (Hay, 1908, p. 119), fragments of shell; AMNH 1474 (Hay 1908, figs. 117, 118), xiphiplastron and other fragments
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"Zygoramma microglypha n. sp." = Adocus microglypha
"Zygoramma microglypha n. sp." = Adocus microglypha Cope 1871 turtle AMNH 6129 (holotype partial shell)
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Bottosaurus harlani n. sp.
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