Wallace County [non-specific data], Niobrara Formation (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Wallace County, Kansas (39.0° N, 101.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 68.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Niobrara Formation, Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 86.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. F. Mudge and Party in 1876; reposited in the YPM

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 129833: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 29.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Bothremydina indet.
Bothremydina indet. Gaffney et al. 2006 sideneck turtle
YPM 3608 ("Bothremys barberi, subspecies C" of Gaffney & Zangerl 1968), shell: 'It might also prove to be referable to Chedighaii hutchisoni'