La Repartidora (Miocene of Colombia)
Where: Huila, Colombia (3.4° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 72.4° W)
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When: Victoria Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. Cadena, A. Vanegas, C. Jaramillo, J. M. Cottle, and T. A. Johnson. 2020. A new Miocene turtle from Colombia sheds light on the evolutionary history of the extant genus Mesoclemmys Gray, 1873. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1716777:1-12 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 207888: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 24.02.2020
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Taxonomic list
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Podocnemis tatacoensis n. sp.2 Cadena and Vanegas 2023 river turtle — Specimen VPPLT-1727, nearly complete shell missing: left peripheral 1; the most anteromedial portion of nuchal; left costal 4; portions of left costals 2, 3, and 5; right costal 2, portions of right costal 5, peripherals 8, 9, and 10; portions of peripherals 9-11; portion of the left epiplastron, and the most anteromedial region of hyoplastron.
Caninemys tridentata1 Meylan et al. 2009 sideneck turtle VPPLT-1720 represented by a nearly completely preserved skull (Figure 6), right costal 1, and posterior peripheral (Figure 7).
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Mesoclemmys vanegasorum n. sp.
Mesoclemmys vanegasorum n. sp. Cadena et al. 2020 sideneck turtle | |