Chaux-de-Fonds (Miocene of Switzerland)
Where: Switzerland (47.1° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.3° N, 5.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History) Part III. The Order Chelonia 1-239 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 198589: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 20.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Testudo escheri Pictet and Humbert 1856 turtle BMNH R.1516, cast of entoplastral bone; BMNH R.1516a, cast of anterior marginal
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Ocadia nicoleti n. sp.
Ocadia nicoleti n. sp. Pictet and Humbert 1856 turtle BMNH R.1517, cast of marginal bone; BMNH R.1517a, cast of marginal bone; BMNH R.1518, cast of right epiplastral; BMNH R.1518a, cast of entoplastral; BMNH R.1518b, cast of right hyoplastral; BMNH R.1518c, cast of fragment of right hypoplastral
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