4 miles east of Kimbetoh (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 88.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• 50 feet above the base of the Puerco . . . " (ibid.). Nacimiento Formation, probably lower part, Paleocene.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. B. Reeside and party in 1916; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. S. Gaffney. 1972. The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147(5):245-312 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128451: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 09.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Compsemys victa Leidy 1856 turtle
USNM 8528 (Gilmore, 1919b, fig. 1, pl. 1), an almost complete shell