LACM 15432 Axestemys locality (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.3° N, 107.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 58.2° N, 65.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H.J. Garbani in 1965; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: W. J. Joyce, D. B. Brinkman, and T. R. Lyson. 2019. A new species of trionychid turtle, Axestemys infernalis sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek and Lance formations of the Northern Great Plains, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica 22(3):72:1-28 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206551: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 19.11.2019

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Axestemys infernalis Joyce et al. 2019 softshell turtle
LACM 15432