Where: Baja California, Mexico (30.1° N, 115.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 86.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: El Gallo Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: IGM, Colección Nacional de Paleontología "María del Carmen Perrillat", Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México
Primary reference: O. A. López-Conde, J. Sterli, M. L. Chavarría-Arellano, D. B. Brinkman, and M. Montellano-Ballesteros. 2018. Turtles from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of El Gallo Formation, Baja California, Mexico. South American Journal of Earth Sciences 88:693-699 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197022: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 19.10.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Basilemys sp. Hay 1902 turtle IGM-11169 (Fig. 2E); IGM-11170 (Fig. 2F) and IGM-11171 (Fig. 2G), three shell fragments
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