Where: South Dakota (43.8° N, 102.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 95.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Orellan NALMA mammal zone, Orella Member (Brule Formation), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D.D. Owen; reposited in the USNM
• Also Prof. Baird from the Smithsonian facilitated the study of specimen by Leidy
Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1851. [Description of a new fossil tortoise from Nebraska territory]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 5:172-173 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190539: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 11.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Stylemys nebrascensis n. gen. n. sp." = Stylemys nebrascensis, "Emys hemispherica n. sp." = Stylemys nebrascensis2, "Emys oweni n. sp." = Stylemys nebrascensis1, "Testudo lata n. sp." = Stylemys nebrascensis2, "Emys culbertsonii n. sp." = Stylemys nebrascensis3
"Stylemys nebrascensis n. gen. n. sp." = Stylemys nebrascensis Leidy 1851 turtle USNM V 97, partial shell
"Emys culbertsonii n. sp." = Stylemys nebrascensis3 Leidy 1851 turtle USNM V 2348, almost complete shell
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