Also known as Quebrada Mogollón
Where: Piura, Peru (4.6° S, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° S, 70.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Salina Group, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Reposited in the FMNH
Primary reference: E. S. Gaffney. 1975. A revision of the side-necked turtle Taphrosphys sulcatus (Leidy) from the Cretaceous of New Jersey. American Museum Novitates 2571:1-24 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 128430: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 08.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Taphrosphys olssoni n. sp." = Motelomama olssoni
"Taphrosphys olssoni n. sp." = Motelomama olssoni Schmidt 1931 sideneck turtle FMNH P14172 - type (shell preserving most of the plastron and the internal cast of the carapace)
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