Where: Khouribga, Morocco (32.9° N, 6.6° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° N, 7.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• Danian phosphates based on shark teeth in matrix
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by private collectors; reposited in the AMNH
• purchased or donated with sparse provenance data
Primary reference: E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 129831: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 28.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Bothremys maghrebiana, Labrostochelys galkini n. gen. n. sp.
Bothremys maghrebiana Gaffney et al. 2006 sideneck turtle AMNH 30234, skull; AMNH 30522, skull; MHNL 20-268370, skull; AMNH 30041, skull
Labrostochelys galkini n. gen. n. sp. Gaffney et al. 2006 sideneck turtle AMNH 30042, nearly complete skull 'presumed to be Tertiary based on matrix'
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