OK (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Baja California, Mexico (30.1° N, 115.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 86.6° 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 197024: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 19.10.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Compsemys victa Leidy 1856 turtle
IGM-11173 (Fig. 2I) and IGM-11174 (Fig. 2J), two fragments of shell