Ojo Alamo (Paleocene to of the United States)

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 - 61.7 Ma)

• There is some doubt regarding the level at which the specimen was secured, but it is supposed that it came from the beds above the upper conglomerate; therefore above the dinosaur 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 128453: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 09.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
"Compsemys parva n. sp." = Compsemys victa
"Compsemys parva n. sp." = Compsemys victa Leidy 1856 turtle
USNM 6548 (type of C. parva Hay, 1910, pp. 308-3 10, fig. 1, pl. 10 figs. 1-3), plastral fragments