Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.5° S, 67.2° W: paleocoordinates 48.1° S, 56.4° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Salamanca Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• Banco Negro Inferior, BN1
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; claystone and conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collected in 2013-2014; reposited in the MEF
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• Material stored in the collections of Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Chubut
Primary reference: J. Sterli and M. S. de la Fuente. 2019. Cranial and post-cranial remains and phylogenetic relationships of the Gondwanan meiolaniform turtle Peligrochelys walshae from the Paleocene of Chubut, Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 93(4):798-821 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 200063: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 06.03.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Peligrochelys walshae Sterli and de la Fuente 2013 turtle MPEF–PV 10909, Three caudal vertebrae; MPEF-PV 10910, Postdentary bones; MPEF–PV 10911, Right and left peripherals 3; MPEF–PV 10912, Basioccipital; MPEF–PV 10917, Cervical vertebra 4.
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