Also known as Lutemys warreni type locality
Where: Kane County, Utah (37.3° N, 112.4° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 83.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kaiparowits Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, green siltstone
•green-gray siltstones deposited in a shallow overbank setting consistent with a perennial wetland environment. The locality is stratigraphically located in the lower to middle portion of the middle unit (Roberts et al., 2005), above a volcanic ash (bentonite) bed radiometrically dated to 75.97 § 0.18 Ma (40Ar/39AR) (Roberts et al., 2013) and presumably below an ash bed dated to 75.51 §0.15 Ma (40Ar/39AR) from the upper portion of the middle unit (Roberts et al., 2005, 2013). This coincides with the most fossiliferous interval within the Kaiparowits Formation from which most of the described vertebrate taxa have been recovered to date and closely overlaps with the fossiliferous interval of the Dinosaur Park Formation of southern Alberta (Roberts et al., 2013).
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the DMNH
Primary reference: T. R. Lyson, W. G. Joyce, and J. J. W. Sertich. 2017. A new chelydroid turtle, Lutemys warreni, gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6):e1390672 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190747: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 16.12.2017
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Taxonomic list
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Lutemys warreni n. gen. n. sp.
Lutemys warreni n. gen. n. sp. Lyson et al. 2017 turtle DMNH EPV.89000, a disarticulated skeleton that includes portions of the shell, pelvis, appendicular elements, partial left? frontal, and partial left dentary
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