Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.7° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 87.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Nacimiento Formation, Puercan to Puercan (66.0 - 60.9 Ma)
• about 50 feet above the upper conglomerate, and therefore above the dinosaur-bearing beds" (ibid.). Probably Paleocene, Nacimiento Formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. H. Gardner and J. W. Gidley in 1909; 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 128452: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 09.06.2012
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Taxonomic list
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"Compsemys vafer n. sp." = Compsemys victa
"Compsemys vafer n. sp." = Compsemys victa Leidy 1856 turtle USNM 6551 (type of C. vafer Hay, 1910, pp. 311-313, figs. 2-5, pl. 10 figs. 4, 5) and USNM 6553 (ibid., pl. 11 figs. 1, 2), fragments of shells
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