Ban Hua Ud (Holocene of Thailand)

Where: Suphan Buri, Thailand (14.5° N, 100.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.6° N, 100.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• 14C AMS dating on a necklace made by giant clam shells

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Primary reference: J. Claude, P. Auetrakulvit, W. Naksri, C. Bochaton, V. Zeitoun and H. Tong. 2019. The recent fossil turtle record of the central plain of Thailand reveals local extinctions. Annales de Paléontologie 1-11 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201928: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 11.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Numerous vertebrates including fishes, reptiles and mammals have been found in this locality
Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Amyda ornata softshell turtle
Hyoplastron, lower jaw, and other isolated plastral and carapacial elements including costal plates. MNI = 2
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Cuora amboinensis Riche 1801 Southeast Asian box turtle
Epiplastron, entoplastron, hyoplastron, hypoplastron, xiphiplastron, peripheral, suprapygal, costal, nuchal plates and scapulae. MNI = 13
Siebenrockiella crassicollis Gray 1830 black marsh turtle
Nuchal, costal, hyoplastron and neural plates. MNI = 3
Batagur cf. affinis Cantor 1847 Southern River terrapin
Epiplastron, costal, peripheral, neural plates and the posterior portion of a skull. MNI = 2
Heosemys sp. Gray 1831 Forest turtles
Epiplastron, xiphiplastron, hyoplastron, hypoplastron, peripheral, neural and costal plates. MNI = 2
Heosemys annandalii Boulenger 1903 Yellow-headed temple turtle
Nuchal and posterior peripheral plates. MNI = 1
Malayemys macrocephala Gray 1859 Malayan snail-eating turtle
Nuchal, peripheral, neural, costal, epiplastron, hyoplastron, hypoplastron, xiphiplastron plates and mandibles. MNI = 4
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
Peripheral plates. MNI = 1