Also known as Agate
Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 98.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Harrison Formation, Harrisonian (24.8 - 18.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by O. A. Peterson
• Carnegie Museum
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1906. Descriptions of new species of turtles of the genus Testudo, collected from the Miocene by the Carnegie Museum; together with a description of the skull of Stylemys nebrascensis. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4:15-20 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 191903: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 20.02.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Testudo edae n. sp." = Gopherus edae
"Testudo edae n. sp." = Gopherus edae Hay 1906 gopher tortoise CM 1535 (holotype), a shell (Hay 1908, pl. 83.1–2)
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