Where: Centro, Portugal (39.3° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Freixial Formation, Middle Tithonian to Middle Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Pérez-García and F. Ortega. 2014. A new species of the turtle Hylaeochelys (Eucryptodira) outside its known geographic and stratigraphic ranges of distribution. Comptes Rendus Palevol 13(3):183-188 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153564: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 28.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Hylaeochelys kappa n. sp.
Hylaeochelys kappa n. sp. Pérez-García and Ortega 2014 turtle SHN.LPP 172, a shell preserving the nuchalplate, the first to seventh neurals, the anterior regionof the eighth neural, the first pair of costals, the com-plete second to fourth right costals, the medial region of the fifth to seventh right and second to eighth left costals, the first to fourth pairs of peripherals, the fifth to eighth right peripherals, the complete left epiplastron, the medial margin of the right epiplastron, the entoplastron, the pair of hyoplastra lacking their postero-medial region, and the lateral margin of right hypoplastron.Some of the plates are disjointed, but have a very low dispersion.
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