Gallinas River region (Eocene of the United States)
Where: New Mexico (35.2° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 89.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)
• 'Wasatch Eocene'
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131867: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 31.07.2012, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
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Taxonomic list
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Trionyx cariosus n. sp., Plastomenus communis n. sp., ? Plastomenus fractus n. sp., Plastomenus corrugatus n. sp., Plastomenus serialis n. sp., Trionyx radulus n. sp., Plastomenus catenatus n. sp.
Trionyx cariosus n. sp. Cope 1875 turtle AMNH 2575, holotype shell fragments found by Professor Cope in 1874 along the Gallinas River
Plastomenus communis n. sp. Cope 1875 turtle USNM 1132, holotype partial shell (the distal ends of a number of costal plates and a portion of the left hyoplastron)
? Plastomenus fractus n. sp. Cope 1875 turtle
Plastomenus corrugatus n. sp. Cope 1875 turtle
Plastomenus serialis n. sp. Cope 1877 turtle Types lost (Hay 1908), costal fragments (Cope 1877a, pl. 25.8–10)
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"Emys cibollensis n. sp." = Echmatemys cibollensis, "Emys lativertebralis n. sp." = Echmatemys lativertebralis
"Emys cibollensis n. sp." = Echmatemys cibollensis Cope 1877 turtle USNM 2578 (holotype), shell fragments
"Emys lativertebralis n. sp." = Echmatemys lativertebralis Cope 1877 turtle USNM 2576 (holotype), shell fragments constituting an almost complete shell
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