Where: Coahuila, Mexico (25.5° N, 101.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 76.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Difunta Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• upper non-marine beds
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: D. Brinkman, M. C. Aguillon-Martinez, J. H. Hutchison and C. M. Brown. 2016. Yelmochelys rosarioae gen. et sp. nov., a stem kinosternid (Testudines; Kinosternidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Coahuila, Mexico. PaleoBios 33:1-20 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179651: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 23.06.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Yelmochelys rosarioae n. gen. n. sp.
Yelmochelys rosarioae n. gen. n. sp. Brinkman et al. 2016 mud turtle |