near Punta Peligro, MPEF-PV 10840 locality (Paleocene of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.3° S, 67.4° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° S, 56.5° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 200075: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 06.03.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Peligrochelys walshae Sterli and de la Fuente 2013 turtle
MPEF–PV 10840, Right peripheral 1, left peripheral 3, indet. cervical vertebral, and sacral vertebra 1